Most folk have to squeeze summer into two frantic weeks, including travel time to and from. My wife has seniority up the wazoo, so she’s got four glorious weeks in a row. I have been working at the college for nearly 20 years and after summer school is over I have 30 days off. On an island off an island is a ferry dock, which is a 10 min walk to tiny fisherman’s house. Here is where we go for a solid three weeks of bliss. When vacation time is over its hard to drop below the 50th parallel