Out of town until June 2nd...

This weekend I'm travelling to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for an epicurean retreat. It's a yearly tradition for several of my good friends, and this will be my second time participating in its glories.

During the days we work outdoors and perform general maintenance on a beatiful house and its surrounding property which sits on the shores of Lake Huron. During the nights we return indoors for a Catholic symposium, complete with all the gastronomic trimmings, and centered around a different theme each year (last year it was Dante's Divine Comedy, this year it will be Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and the concept of vocation in the modern world). The wonderful thing about it is that most of the gentlemen are Catholic scholars, fathers, reporters and businessmen, so the discussions are excellent and the camaraderie exceptional.

Also, the location is so remote that you can't even count on cell phone reception there, and as the residence only has a single phone line, blogging will be necessarily suspended until I return late this Sunday evening.

In the meantime, you are more than welcome to read the great blogs that I link to on my sidebar, as well as continue to participate in the combox discussions ... and if I come back to see a few more votes for AmP in the Blogger's Choice Awards, well, let's just say I'll be a happier camper still. Thanks!