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Suites, Whores, Bikes, and Horse Poop - Our "Somewhere In Time" Adventure on Mackinac Island

Pretty flowers greeted us in our rooms First Lady Suites

Stefania wrote a lovely post about our visit to Mackinac Island, where we stayed at the beautiful Grand Hotel. She's right that our mere words and photos can't do it justice, and you really must visit yourself to experience the magic.

Early morning on Mackinac Island, Michigan

Thank you, Stefania, for leaving the stories about our Somewhere In Time shenanigans to me.

Leave Your Mustang on the Mainland, There's No Drunk Driving on Mackinac

It was so hard to leave our Mustang in the parking lot!

In the last Ford-y Whatever post, we had just gravel sprayed out of Danielle Wiley's driveway, and were driving up to the top of the peninsula, to get the ferry to Mackinac Island. Four hours and a few ballsy red Ford Mustang V8 powered slow-driver-passings later, we were on the boat, sipping adult lemonade beverages (thank you Meijer & Skyy Vodka!) We arrived too late for the fancy dinner at Grand Hotel, so we had a tasty meal at a restaurant by the dock, and then caught a "taxi" to the hotel.

Since Mackinac is a car free island, that means that everything is done by horse-drawn carriage, including taxis. Also you smell horse shit everywhere. 

On our slow, fragrant, horse-drawn carriage ride to the hotel, we met Transient Waiter Dude, who works on Mackinac Island six months out of the year, and then goes to somewhere warm like Florida to work the other six months. He shared this nugget of wisdom with us:

"Yeah, it's a party town. Thirteen bars and no cars!"

I been repeating that like Rainman for the past week. Sorry if you're infected now, too!

We Had No Idea Someone Made an Iconic, Late 70s, Time Travel, Romance Film Here

Self-portrait by Miss Jane Seymour, hanging outside the Somewhere in Time Suite

Alicia Silverstone and Alanis Morrisette Star in a Trailer About our Ford-y Whatever Roadtrip

My Mother's Red Hat w/Alicia Silverstone & Alanis Morissette from Alicia Silverstone

Hey, so you know how Stefania and I leave on Friday for our big Ford-y Whatever roadtrip through the mid-west?  Funny or Die just posted this movie trailer about it, starring Alicia Silverstone (me) and Alanis Morrisette (Stefania).

I always suspected that our lives are ripe for an IFC feature length film, and now I have confirmation. But just for the record, our real soundtrack has a lot more rap, the kind with with very explicit lyrics. No Diggity, No Doubt!

P.S. to Scott Monty, Ford Social Media Czar: even though I'm devastated and heart-broken that we can't have a Shelby, thanks for giving us the Taurus SHO to drive to Chicago. I hear it's badass, and probably less likely to get the attention of speed trap monitoring state troopers.  Speaking of, if we get any tickets while driving the non-Shelby Mustang, can we expense those back to Ford?

P.S.2 Don't worry, both our moms are alive, kicking and far too well-dressed to ever wear a red beret. But they do plenty of other crazy shit (Love you, Mom & Tata!) so the movie will still be an Emotional Laugh Riot.

- Cat/BadKitty