Day Fifteen – Hitting the Road

July 5, 2016 – Going to the Woods

It’s time to get ready for the next phase of our adventure.  For whatever reason I wake up at 3:56!  That’s before sunrise, so I take my computer out to the balcony and alternate between writing yesterday’s blog and shooting the sunrise!  It’s a little different today because there are clouds!

 When the sun clears the trees I come back inside, and the towel Marilyn has put up to block the sun comes crashing down.  When I try to put it back I disengage half the shade and in the process of putting it back up I wake Marilyn.  OOPS!

Look at the footprints that lead from the main road.

Check out the cool ceiling!  And note the books on the left.

We’re both awake, so we get dressed and drive into town for a REAL breakfast.  We’ve read wonderful reviews for Café This Way, so that’s our goal. It’s only a little after seven so there is a ton of parking!  It was billed as “eclectic” and it lives up to the hype.  There is original art on the walls and lots of old books on shelves and in nooks and an interesting ceiling.  Tony is our waiter.  He is a hoot, and a swim and football coach during the school year at the local high school of about five hundred kids.  He’s a fine waiter, too!

I order the Ann omelet with goat cheese, tomatoes, basil and Parmesian and I can get GF toast!  And decaf!  Marilyn has the Green Eggs and Sam, with spinach, artichoke hearts, calamata olives and feta.  Both are yummy!

Back to our room to finish computering and packing!  At ten of eleven we go down to the front desk, straighten out our confusing bill and hit the road, after I add in the photo from the parade of “Got Trump?  There’s a Cure for That”!

Now it’s drive, drive, drive, until we finally arrive at La Grange, Sharon and Dana Kadey’s apartment complex.  Along the way we stop at an ice cream and quick foods stop. It’s in the middle of nowhere;  but there are lots of customers! It’s been five hours since breakfast and we’ve got another hour or two to go.  I get the grilled chicken sandwich without the bun and Marilyn gets chicken fingers.  Now we’re feeling better!! There really is nothing on this road that Dana recommended, including traffic!  And I’m the only one with intermittent cell service! Happily, nothing goes awry and in due course we arrive at our destination!

Dana takes us on a grand tour of his property with twenty acres here and thirty-five acres there, and a huge vegetable garden and fourteen apartments!  He shows us the laundry facilities and the area where we can come for wifi reception, and his and Sharon’s apartment.  He is SO funny that my cheeks hurt by the time he climbs into his truck to lead us to the cabin!

Oh my goodness!  It is two stories and glorious!  Of course, you have to turn on the generator to get water, and the propane lights are preferred because the electric ones run off a car battery! The hot water is heated on demand, until there isn’t any water!  And the only electric outlet only works when the generator is running, which is discouraged, except when you need water! It will be an adventure!  Also, we have to drive back up the four-mile gravel road to get to La Grange, to get wifi!  And past that for a grocery!

Sharon has baked us fresh bread and left us two bottle of wine, one red and one white, and fresh peonies.  Also, she invites us to take whatever we’d like from their cabin, right next door, like pork slices or ice cream or potato chips or watermelon!  We settle in and have a hot dog and chips from her larder for dinner.  Marilyn doesn’t care for the Kendall-Jackson chardonnay, so it’s all mine!  Like I need a whole bottle of wine tonight!  After the first half, I’m finished!

We turn on the generator so we can take showers and have water for dishes and play with our photos as the sun begins to set.  When it’s well and truly dark we go to bed and hope not to arise with the sun in the morning.

(We’re at La Grange and I don’t have a way to download last night’s sunset photos.  But they’ll be worth waiting for!  More about today’s adventures later!)