Last week in Mackinaw

Heading South!!

This is our last week in Mackinaw City. Boy, did we get a dozy of a storm to send us off. The wind is whistling around the house and we can not tell how much snow we got last night as it has been blown all over. Friday we head south for the last time.

It has been a fun fall trading shelter for work here at the tip of the lower mitt. Only having three television stations, no PBS. No newspaper but the on-line versions. Walking to the post office most days to gather the mail and get the latest news from others that are also gathering their mail.

The new GLLKA offices are well on their way to being finished and we helped pull out the walls and cellings of the greasy spoon it use to be. Our trips to the Soo for Tai Chi. The weeks that we got to docent on the Icebreaker Mackinaw. Our work to get the historic village started on artifact accessioning. The folks that we knew when we got here and now know better than ever. All the new folks we now know. The difference between summer Mackinaw City and winter Mackinaw City. It has been fun and rewarding. I can't forget the great cross country skiing we have done!

But both Susie and I have our plane reservations to head off to Philadelphia and stagging. Susie leaves on the 18th of February and I head out on the 24th of February. My plan is to visit my sister Jean and her husband in New Jersey for a couple of days and then on to Phily.

Next month at this time I will be learning more Moldovan language and culture IN Moldova. I just hope I finally solve the getting everything in the suitcase problem before then. The more reading I do the more I think that winter will be winding down and it will be next winter for much of the heavy clothes. I'll let you all know.