Month: May 2016

Started the day one state and about 5 hours from home, ready in some ways for this trip to be over, and in other ways, not so much. The whole “new place every night or two” deal was tiring; not just the breaking down and setting up camp but also the decisions on where to stay and uncertainty of the location and, of course, the driving to get there. My future plans will be much less about one-night RV-park stands and a lot more about staying in a place at least a week at a time, if not two or…

Well, considering that home is still Seattle for a few more months, I’m almost home. But, really, Breeze is starting to feel like home, and I’m pretty excited to clean out my apartment next week and move the rest of the vagabond life stuff into the trailer and start figuring out how to make it all fit. And, to be honest, I am kind of wondering what is back in that apartment that I haven’t needed for a month, other than work-related clothes and some books. Wednesday afternoon through this morning, I hung out in Hailey with a friend, soaking…

An easy day today, sliding from Arco over to Hailey, via the back roads of Idaho. Why Hailey? Well, friends there have a spare room, a place to park my rig, and, oh, yes, a hot tub. And a lovely deck where I am typing this entry as the wind shakes the aspen leaves and the birds sing their happiness that the snow is gone and spring is well and truly here. On the way to Hailey, I stopped for a few hours to check out what has to be the coolest named national monument ever: Craters of the Moon….

Ha, didn’t count on zero wifi at Yellowstone, but it makes sense. It is a HUGE park, and I actually enjoyed the no-pressure zone of not responding to Facebook posts or tweets or emails for the better part of three days. All the better to focus on the experience of being in Yellowstone, which is hard to put into words right now, and even harder to pick just a few images to convey the feelings I had there. But I have to try… and then I have to include Grand Tetons and eastern Idaho. So this is going to be…

Quick update because (1) lots of driving with not a lot of photos and (2) I am being kept busy by three great-nieces here in rural Wisconsin! Driving down from the Keweenaw Peninsula was pretty smooth sailing: very little traffic and mostly sunny weather. Six hours or so of me and SiriusXM saved my sanity more than a few times. Going 55 is less stressful and better gas mileage but it can make for longer drives. The drive was so worth it though! Breeze and I had our first overnight guest, my great-niece, Eden, who is 8 years and the…