And Me, I Sing For Tomorrow

Wow, Magdies, you have been a treat.  The double ferry from NS makes you a bit difficult to reach, so all the more inspiring as a secret escape.  Seems like much longer than the allotted days since early departure from Hali on Saturday morning - an always promising sign.  Perfectly content with how it all unfolded, from the crib highs and lows, packed restaurants and seal, kitschy boutiques, assorted accommodation, stolen canoe, dodgy block wood for the campfire, morning coffees, local home brews, and memory of the sea photos.

Most of all the colours - of the sky and cliffs and dunes - and the freshness of the air - relaxed and tranquil - and the people.  Such a contented atmosphere, a real treat to see and interact with a few up close.  Serge and his choice among the best of his three CDs, Julien the carpenter/photographer (Montez!), Mr. Loi and his Apple orchard and French compliments, Poet's alley and Porta del Sol and work started not to win a living, but...

In such an environment, the cow ledge option at another end of the world destination does not seem so crazy.  Starts, instead, to resemble an ideal.  A path forward, dreamt and articulated, emerges.  Slowly.  It looks something like this... 

OCTOBER - first visit/meeting with (hopefully) morning whale tour.  Access to financials and airing of potential plan with owners, to test feasibility of idea for both resto and airbnb.  Tell MS/HW about Bark.  Gym/7/stairs.

 

NOV-JAN - prep and file MFA app, meet with Stace about Prince St, and Tsu about potential acquisition.  Moby Dick marathon in New Bedford.  Incorporate.  Banking.

FEBRUARY - tax / RRSP decisions. 

MAY - Offer?  Decision on MFA?  SC in water.  Condo to market?

JUNE - close?  39th birthday present.

JULY-SEPT - Notice.  First 2 weeks at King's.  LEARN from L and S.  Ideas and preparations for relaunch in 2019. Agent to oversee Airbnb and decide about close date for season.

OCTOBER - Nepal.

How wonderful.  Depends on nerve, enough hours to stay respectable, and luck that no one else has the same thought in the next while.  It starts something like this, in 2.5 days...

"Hey Lav."  Heh.  Not for the first time, I wonder.  Thanks for (reinforcing) the idea, you lovely Iles.  Just imagine re-reading this, if you could pull it off for realz.  Courage.