From North To South

Friday morning we enjoyed our last moments at the cabin fully. We drank leisurely coffee while I stripped beds and futzed in the kitchen. We drove dirt roads down to the river. 

Goodbye Cabin. See you soon. You beautiful, lovely thing.

For lunch, C recommended a brewery nearby. So we headed there while tooling about on roads we had not touched for years. We sat out on the patio with the dog, praying that the gentle spritzes of rain would not turn into a full blown storm riot. We joked with the waiter that we would hold out hope, and our hope paid off. Lunch was amazing, and they had pickled pineapple which blew our minds so now Doug wants to try his hand at pickling pineapple. 

We'll be sure to let you know how that goes. And a writeup on the brewery will be in the shenanigans blog.

The hotel that we usually would have stayed at was 300 bucks a night, and we weren't going to pay that to stay somewhere where we just sleep. 

Also, you pay that kinda money when you want to walk to anything worth seeing, like a downtown or a pub or something. Give me a break, 300 bucks for a highway hotel with no restaurant. 

So I ended up booking a room at this other spot. Closer to Jess, near a couple decent restaurants, a liquor & beer store, McDonalds for quick brekkie. For a lot less than 300 a night. But... Meh. 

When you check into your hotel and it has a smelly tree on the light fixture near the beds, this isn't a good sign. 

The smelly tree was helpful, to be honest. The room was old. Ancient. In need of a complete rehab. The front desk guy explained to me at check in that they were building a whole new facility right behind this building, to be completed within 2 years. This building was going to be torn down after the new hotel was built, so there would be a huge parking lot for all the rooms. 

Back in the day you could tell it was a destination. Conference rooms, banquet hall, the signs were all still there. But no good updates for cleaning had been done for some time. Like everything was on hold for years before the pandemic, and then the pandemic happened. 

Opening the patio door let a lot of fresh air in, but it was hot. Luckily the air conditioner was powerful, and took the mustiness out of the room. 

Have to admit though, best shower head and hot shower I'd had in a hotel in a long time. It had faults, but positives. 

Lord Knows, I've stayed in a lot worse!

We took naps, and because we had a giant lunch at 2pm, we weren't hungry for dinner at 7 when we woke up. We took a nice walk through a park we love. A mile and a half flat tromp round trip, with mosquito motivation on the way back out. The walk around the whole pond would have been 3 miles , or more, if my memory serves. It would be pitch dark half way round, so we didn't want to deal with that. 

Jess and their friend Sara met us for ice cream after, and we sat outside chatting until after 10pm. Mosquitoes be damned. 

This morning, we packed up. I let the guy at the front desk know (same from check in) about the smelly tree and he was aghast. Room service really should have caught that. He was one of these guys you can tell is invested in where he works. And it was a comfortable night's sleep, even if the room was weird. I was not going to drag him on the internet. I'm interested in what the new facility is going to look like when it is all set. We'll see what the nature of things is cost-wise between the hotels up in that area will be and how it all shakes out. 

We got to my parents in time to take them out for late lunch/early dinner. I have been finding my mom very stressful. And they are both very fragile and old. 

We are now at a hotel near their house, a much better hotel. Very much. Tomorrow we hit the road to head south, but I wish we had another day. Driving from here to our house is going to take like 12 hours I just know it. 

sigh.

Anyway. 

Being back here, and having a Sam Summer beer in a Patriots glass was just right. Felt like home, yo.

Numbers after the image. 

Friday

exercise: mile and a half walk, futzing around the woods, loving being at the camp in the right amount of lazy and active 

Blood Glucose:

10am 154
6pm 210
11pm 251

Food
coffee
water
2 beers
charcuterie with cheese! meat! pickled things! 
cauliflower shawarma w/ piece of fried chicken
sugar free black raspberry ice cream

Saturday

exercise: not much, but local walkings and futzings. Fitbit is dead.

blood glucose:

9am: 209
2pm: 212
10pm: 206

food:
coffee
water
beer with lunch
giant salad with buffalo chicken (way too giant)
3 beers
almonds
3 slices of pizza sausage & onion
(apologies for bad food decisions today but that's what's here)