[Dueller]

Wife's pub is gonna close since several of the regulars are throwing July 4th parties and all the staff needs a day off.

We've been invited to a number of diffferent parties and a couple of boating excursions, but declined.

We're heading out to a neighboring town on the Mississippi River, reserved a room in a classic old motel that is described as timeworn nostalgic right outta the 50's/60's (i.e., kinda run down) with a big old pool. We're carrying a few books, a blender for boat drinks, maybe a blow up raft or two and were gonna take a step back in time, lounge in the pool, watch fireworks over a civil war battleground, drop a few bucks at a casino, find an authentic backroad Mississsippi Delta Juke Joint or two and relax on saturday and Sunday.

And you?