Great coincidences have abounded on this 10-day adventure.  We have found that about half of the people who venture up to the lighthouse,  come in to take the tour and walk up to the lens room. The other half just stop in to talk or look around the first floor, which is free.  It is so true what has been said about talking long enough to a stranger -- you eventually find out you have shared ties.  If not, their interesting information is added to our list of neat places to visit or things to do.  We have had avid lighthouse fans with great stories of visiting Michigan lighthouses (there are 129 in all) at Whitefish Point in the UP, or Big Sable Point in Ludington, Point Betsie in Benzie County or Forty Mile Point in Rogers City.  There are real lighthouse junkies out there folks.  It's a vacation lifestyle;-)  A world we never really knew about, until you start talking to the people who walk through our lighthouse museum door.  Another visitor called his 50-something retired teacher mom who has been a lighthouse keeper in five lighthouses, to talk with us about how she found the various historical societies who run the places.  For us, this might just be a one-time thing...we don't know.  You really have to carve out the TIME from your regular life to be able to DO this kind of thing.  But if you can it's pretty glorious.  In retrospect, we both feel now this has been the best 10 days we've spent in years.  To be alone together or even with this chance to be alone with yourself, it is a rare opportunity of quiet and recharging from the overload of today's technology-filled life.  Sounds stupid, I know but it's true. We looked out into the fog today and were surprised at how many people wander the rock piled (cairn) strewn shoreline...but this place, for this area is one of the special spots....the Land's End."  A great place to start a new beginning.  While here I finished up all of our Christmas Cards, writing a little note to our family and friends about where we were.  One card arrived to a friend's house 200+ miles away, who immediately phoned her cousin (coincidentally, a long-lost family friend of ours) but who happened to live just four miles from the lighthouse.  He jumped in the car and rushed over to surprise us.  What a rare treat. We enjoyed a wonderful evening and agreed it bordered on magical.  My cousin called from Billings,Montana -- fascinated with the idea of being here today.  Okay, so enough with this sensitive, mushy stuff......it's at an end now and tomorrow we return down the crazy freeway to city life and the realities of ringing phones, rushed schedules and serious responsibilities.  I would urge any of you out there to consider doing this, if you can eak out the time...which as we all know is precious.  Take care everyone, and thanks for journeying with us!  We'll post again if we expand this to freighter-watching on Lake St. Clair!