CARMEN LEE--LIFE IS NOT A VACATION, IT IS A JOURNEY

Day 118, "Every picture has a story"

This was the view on August 12, 2014 as I stepped out of our camper in Seward Alaska.  This was our second day in Seward and I knew we had 2 more days camping there.  The rain seemed to be almost nonstop and when you are living in a camper that is 5X8 feet that is kind of "not so good"  Terry had noticed that in the morning there would always be moisture on the inside walls of our camper BUT it was almost impossible to leave any doors open to dry out as the rain never seemed to stop.  Finally, after 3 days, we looked at the bed sheets and they had started to mildew from the humid weather.  One could do nothing outside so it was stay sitting up in the camper and reading or driving around Seward which does not take that long!  From there we were to drive to Homer.  A friend, Tom, lived there and we planned to look him up as well as charter a fishing trip into the Gulf of Alaska to try our luck at salmon and halibut.

As one can see we did have success in our fishing trip.  Terry and I caught our limit of salmon and halibut.  We had them cleaned, flash frozen and sent to Minnesota.  We enjoyed them all the way to Naples as we turned our camping cooler to freezing and they stayed rock hard until we arrived.  It was fun watching the guys clean them when we pulled up to shore.  In the end we had about 30 pounds of fish.  Terry did mention that on a per pound bases it would have been cheaper to buy the fish as Costco!!!  But "for sure" we would have missed the fun and that was the most important idea.

A tennis day but not a team day.  The 70+ team plays at home today but I am not playing.  At this point in the season, if everyone played the same amount of time, I would have played 2 matches but I have played 3 so NO complaints.  I will play with some guys at 10:30 so will get my "tennis fix" in for the day.  I had an interesting tennis day yesterday.  I played with 3 other guys at 7:30.  Two of them are at the 2.5 level while the third one is a weak 3.0.  It was fun but not really much of a challenge.  As we finished our play at 9 one of the guys playing at that time asked if one of us could stick around as he thought maybe one of their foursome may not show.  He was right and I said I could play again. These guys are /supposed to be/ some of the better guys BUT I played at least up to their level and my partner and I won 6-4.  After our match, which lasted an hour, I said I could not play any more as I had been playing for 2 1/2 hours at that point.  Besides my left leg was bothering me a bit.  Now ALL that was true BUT is certainly was NICE to quit while on top!  That is my story and I am sticking to it!!!
I enjoyed scrabbled eggs with olives, bacon and cheese in and I complimented it with that delicious FP so time to wrap things up here and get on to a book that I need to finish by Saturday as we will go to another of our book lecture mornings.