I’ve been very good about posting every night, but I realized this morning that I didn’t post anything yesterday – oops! Nothing even remotely exciting happened yesterday. Rich did a lot of poking around trying to find the source of a small leak. Of course once he found what he was looking for, it was in a cramped space that he couldn’t get to without pulling out all kinds of things. Fortunately it leaks into a space under the back deck and only leaks when we’re underway, so we’ll have it taken care of while we’re back in Indiana at Thanksgiving.

I did a lot of planning and making reservations yesterday for our travels next week. We have friends from Lafayette joining us next Friday to cruise with us for a few days, so I wanted to make sure we had places to stay. A couple of places weren’t taking reservations – “we have lots of slips, honey, no need to worry, we’ll have space for you (said in a definite TN/AL accent)”. Hopefully that’s true.

We had a visitor on our middle deck yesterday

We had dinner at the local yacht club here at the marina last night with two other couples. It was an interesting experience – no drink or wine list. The server had a small iPad from which he read us what wines he had and then we had to ask for prices. For those of us who are visual learners, it was very frustrating and confusing.

Today I got up early and got 3 loads of laundry done. Rich cleaned up the outside of the boat and I dusted inside and did dishes – boring (insert big yawn here). We got a shuttle ride from the marina (they use big golf carts) into Grand Rivers to check out the town. We were told by the shuttle driver that the deli cafe in the grocery store had really good sandwiches, so we decided to try it for lunch. We split a Reuben and an Italian sub and the shuttle driver was right – they were really good! We also had to check out the local ice cream stand across the street and try their hurricanes – good but not as good as the flurries at Dairy Daze in Saugatuck or Captain Sundae in Holland. We wandered around the town a bit and were amazed once again how many plaques there were.

This one is to honor the founder of Grand Rivers. He had hoped it would become a major steel-producing city, but that never happened.

     

The walking trail was marked by red bricks on either side of it. If you followed it in the photo on the left you would end up at Lake Barkley.

This one tells the story of Patti’s 1880s Settlement, a reproduction of a small 1880s village. There was a restaurant as part of this that burned last winter – it was on our list of places we should try. That’s the third place in less than a week that we couldn’t get what it was noted for. ☹️

No sunset tonight – too many clouds.