Filling Up

In case you are grumbling about the price of gas in your neighborhood...

This winter, gas on Mackinac Island costs $7.30 per gallon. Last week, we paid about $39.00 to fill up one of our snowmobiles. Please know - I'm most definitely not complaining about that price; I'm thrilled to have gas available on the island. Thank you Rock Hardware!

We can get about 60 miles on a full eight-gallon tank, so we only need to fill up every couple of weeks or so. We just drive our snowmobile out onto the Coal Dock, and fuel up. 

We've had such mild winters lately, but this year is turning out to be much more like the winters of old - snowy and cold. (I think the high today was 11 degrees F (about -12 C.)  We have two snowmobiles, since Allen and I both work and regularly need to be in two different places during the day. People are often surprised to find out we only have one car. About once a summer we end up wanting to be at two different places (off the island) during the same weekend, but that hardly necessitates paying for two cars all year long. Our car sits in the parking lot more than we drive it! The snowmobiles really are our daily transportation...