The fantastic view from a Hospital Parking Garageee
A couple of months ago one of my friends from childhood was diagnosed with cancer. For the last month he and I have been driving 90 miles round trip to the hospital so that he can receive radiation treatments and chemotherapy. This is not about his cancer though, it’s about that magnificent VIEW from the top floor of the parking garage.
Little Traverse Bay is a Michigan landmark surrounded by still more Michigan landmarks in the form of some of the most exclusive and expensive real estate around. Big name stars have homes in Harbor Springs and then there’s The Bay View Association between Petoskey and Harbor Springs. There’s also Bay Harbor going the other way around the bay towards Charlevoix. Out a couple of miles along Little Traverse Bay is Lake Michigan – home of beautiful islands, shipwrecks and a whole lot of water.
Sitting on the roof of the parking garage you can see most of the area for miles around. And that view is absolutely beautiful.
Little Traverse Bay looking towards Harbor Springs.
Honestly, that view makes going to Petoskey every afternoon “worth” the drive. So too does the laughter and the conversation with an old friend make the drive “worth it”. The cancer treatment sucks but the VIEW is really great “compensation” for the 30 or 40 minutes I sit there on the top of the parking garage while waiting for my friend to return from treatment.
All images taken by me.
06/27/2019 @ 8:59 am
Renee:thank you for posting this. Comment: Did you really mean “garagee” rather than garage? Also note that you need to go to screen options and turn COMMENTS on. You should only have to do this once but until then no one can comment on your articles. The screen options tab is right under your user name in the back end when you are logged in.
06/27/2019 @ 1:42 pm
No, the extra e’s happened and I didn’t see them until I hit publish and it published so I said “screw it” and left it alone. LOL By then it was late and I was cranky so I just didn’t care that much to fix it.
06/27/2019 @ 4:52 pm
Leave it in. You’ve created a new word. Garageee: someone who frequents a garage.
06/28/2019 @ 10:38 am
Better the garage than the hospital from my perspective. LOL I spend enough time with doctors and hospitals with my own medial fecal matter these days without adding to it.
07/02/2019 @ 3:48 pm
By the way, Abe Penziner is a pseudonym of mine. Happens to have been my grandfather’s real name.
07/02/2019 @ 3:50 pm
That was stupid. I forgot that Alan Milner is Abe Penziner on chrome. Abe has the same permissions as the other authors, which is how I check to see how things are looking from the author’s point of view.
06/27/2019 @ 4:57 pm
On tags: tags should be mostly proper nouns, the names of people and organizations. Cancer, as a tag, is too broad a category. That’s called a short-tail tag. A long tail tag would be something like little known carcinoid symptoms which is more likely to generate hits from the search engines. I’m not a big believer in the ability of search engines to generate traffic but it’s better not to leave any stones unturned.
06/28/2019 @ 10:35 am
Cancer wasn’t actually the point of this one though. I MAY write about adventures in squamous cell anal cancer treatment (including medical marijuana) after my friend’s treatment is done in three weeks but I won’t write about it without his written consent (which I know he will give me) first.
06/28/2019 @ 12:19 am
Renee, are you by chance an Open Salon alum, an Our Salon refugee, or both?
06/28/2019 @ 10:32 am
Yes, I am an OS alum. I TRIED joining Our Salon but never got the confirmation email so I said “the heck with it” and wandered off to do other things. About a month ago I got a PM on FB from another OS alum/refugee that I’ve been in contact with since long before OS telling me about Alan’s project here and wandered over to play.
(MrsRaptor)
06/28/2019 @ 11:14 am
I loved you as Mrs.Raptor…and I expect we will do some interesting stuff here. I have plans. Of course I also hear God laughing, but I am hoping to digest the best writing that comes in through this medium and publishing a monthly digest called, of course, BindleSnitch Digest the profits from which, if any, will be split among the authors.