My wife and I went on the last cruse of the 2007 season for the Goodtime III, a great lakes excursion boat. From now until Memorial Day 2008 it will be laid up in a Detroit, Michigan rebuilder's yard, and gone over with a fine toothcomb. Tested here and overhauled there, the scrutiny part of a mandatory Coast Guard inspection process. She had been on Lake Erie for five years since the previous major inspection and I hadn't taken advantage of it. Now I look forward to the 2008 season cruises.
I look forward to this new season because my wife enjoyed the trip with me. We had hurriedly driven there from her place of employment hoping to get there it time; it was close and we made it. The river cruise was a trip back in time as we saw old riverfront developments that were still in existence. There were both lift and swing bridges, flourmills and marinas. Some had failed miserably, remaining only because of the prohibitive cost of their removal. Others were still in operation and in surprisingly good shape; they were a testimony to their engineering quality as well as their utilitarian need. We saw them from a totally different view, seen only by those traveling by water as they had been seen a century or more ago.
We both liked the time together, to share our exiting or difficult moments of the day as well as to talk to friends and share in good conversation. Stolen moments from both of our busy schedules making them all the more valuable. We both look forward to next year hoping that the secrets of the river will be revealed to us at that time as well. 'Til then….
K.
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