Showing posts with label travel tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel tips. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

No Place Like Home


Another successful Watervale vacation- plenty of morning hikes, afternoons spent swimming in the big lake, and sparklers on the beach at sunset. But despite how much I love our annual retreat to northern Michigan, it is always nice to be back home in Arizona.

This year I was extremely pleased to arrive home with very little dirty laundry, only a small pile of sandy socks.
That's right folks, while in Michigan I perfected Macon Leary's shower-with-your-clothes-on laundry technique.  (Macon Leary is the travel writer in Anne Tyler's novel, The Accidental Tourist.  Fun book, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.  Maybe you've seen the movie.  Macon is a depressed travel writer and hires a flakey dog trainer to train his out-of-control dog.)

During our Watervale vacation Jimmy and I use to argue about who was driving into town to do laundry, until I put a bottle of this in our shower ...