Summer Tour: Day 7 - Day off at Ted's Timber Lodge on Lake Holcombe.

So today was our first day off since we hit the road. We all slept in, for varying reasons, and enjoyed a lazy morning doing nothing. Most of us had rolled out of bed just before noon, and we had lunch over at Ted's. I spent the morning doing some work. Catching up on emails, making some phone calls, and putting some things in order. Even though It was memorial day, I got a lot of things done.

The rest of the afternoon was spent sitting out on the lake shore, watching the wind whip the lake into choppy whitecaps, the sun shining down through the birch and hemlock trees. It was very restful, relaxing, and nice to just sit and soak in it all.

We went over to our booking agent's house for dinner, and an amazing dinner at that. They whipped up a six course meal, one of the best any of us have had, maybe ever. It was all homemade, everything from scratch, the pasta noodles, the caramel sauce, fudge sauce, lemon ice, vanilla ice cream, everything. It was amazing. None of us left hungry, and it was, amazingly, incredible. I called it an early night to get as much rest as I could, and slept very well with the cool front pushing in that evening and the soft sounds of rain tickling the window panes outside my room. My windows were wide open all night, and it was so nice, to smell the lake and the trees all night long.