But, is there anyplace I would rather be, yes, there is.
I would like to be in Michigan, Mullett Lake, near Topinabee, sitting out on a dock that extends out in the water, sitting on a white wooden seat, looking out at the lake. God Summers on Mullett Lake. I have sat out on a bench there and felt His presence all around me.
Why here, Summer memories that go back to the late 30's, vacations to Michigan, some of my fondest memories, and just thinking about it, I am walking right back in to my childhood. Topinabee is all the good memories of childhood. A grocery store, a post office, a filling station and a few other buildings, but heaven to a young boy, on vacation with Mom and Dad.
In those days The Topinabee Hotel was the essence of elegance to me. A railroad track ran through the town, with a small station at the hotel where the guests would disembark and start their vacation. It no longer exists, as does the past, but the memories are vivid to me.
Mullett used to be a Summer haven for the "Detroit" underworld. They had their own guarded community down the road a bit, gatehouse guard and all. I imagine Fitz and many others I knew visited there. Years later, I worked for some of them in Nevada, Fitz, Mert Wertheimer, Danny Sullivan I think all visited or had Summer places on Mullett.
They all ate at the Hack-Ma-Tack Inn and some kept their powerful speed boats on Mullett and used the boats to go to Canada and bring illegal booze back to Detroit, in the old days. The lake is part of an inland waterway that goes in to the Great Lakes.
One of my "Bucket List" items is to make it back to Michigan one more time, and to spend a morning sitting out on that dock, and then, in the evening, watching a sunset on Mullett Lake.
.......... "backward, turn backward, oh time in they flight ........."
