The car is packed by seven and nobody has agreed on a departure time. One of them drives, one of them navigates badly, one of them has appointed herself in charge of snacks. The water is still hours off and the windows went down in the driveway.
They have done this every May since before the spreadsheet existed, and the spreadsheet is now four tabs long.
The friend who booked the place and handles the keys. The friend who controls the music and is, to be fair, never wrong. This trip ends in The Tide Pool every spring, and these are the women it was built for.
When the tail is in the closet, the shirt has to say it for you. The Comfort Colors 1717 is a heavyweight 6.1 oz tee cut from 100% ring-spun cotton grown in the USA, garment-dyed and soft-washed so it already feels like a tide-worn favorite on the first wear (and preshrunk, so the fit holds from June to the cold-water months). It is the tee for the long business day that ends at the lake, and for the landlocked believer whose nearest ocean is a screensaver. Soft on the skin, sovereign in the room. Mermaid Dayz prints it for the woman who has a mersona and a mortgage.