There is something irresistible about pointing your car in the direction of the seashore and watching your home getting smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror.
For many years, I worked close enough to a ferry route that I actually felt a pull like some huge magnet trained on my car.
Some mornings, I had to grip the steering wheel and make myself turn into the parking lot at work.
Heed the siren call I say!
Ferry Riding 101
- Get up at the crack of dawn regardless of what time your ferry sails
- Pack your bags or double check your packed bags or rifle through your packed bags looking for something that will be left behind anyway
- Over water your house plants
- Depart without a backward glance
- Feel your heart taking a few tentative gasps and begin to relax
- Admire the eagles circling above Ladner
- Smugly congratulate yourself on reserving a spot on the ferry
- Pull into the vast parking lot and find the right lane and drive down it and down it and down it
- Wind down your window sociably and fetch out your snack
- Listen stoically to announcement that ferry is delayed one hour
- Hasten to small patch of distant shade shared by all pet owners traveling in the same direction as you
- Have your own Best of Class dog show with your grandchildren and imagine names of all entrants.
- Assign prizes for Largest, Littlest, Hairiest, Cutest, Most Obedient
- Disqualify Cutest for lifting his leg and peeing on his owner and her purse as she sits nearby
- Respond to the crackling loudspeaker by hastening to your car as it smolders in a vast sea of smoldering cars
- Keep your thoughts firmly fixed on shade, seashores, surf and shells
- Smile
- Keep smiling
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