Wheels up!

You’ve gotta love car ferries, the way they let you bring everything you own on board with you. It’s the opposite of air travel where you’re trying to stuff everything under your seat or in the overhead compartment. Plus, they're always  telling you 'No scissors, no knives, no quart bottle of Nivea' and seriously, who goes anywhere without these things? On this ferry though, I got to have it all right there in my ride: my snacks cooler on the passenger seat, my dressy hang-ups swaying in the back, plus the the standard extras I travel with all the time, my 8-pound packing-tape gun, my two thermoses one for hot and one for cold, my thousand-page book about how we should all be way nicer to animals....  David and I boarded this ferry like it was Noah’s ark, with two of everything practically; drove on like the Clampetts, then ditched the car in the hold, went up on deck and ah! looked out at the bounding main!