Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

We started the day with a visit to church.  Debi’s brother was in town with his newborn and they were going to bless him, so we went to sacrament meeting to attend the blessing.  Since I go to church a couple times a year anyway, I counted this for one of those visits and took…

Having recovered a little, it was time to start getting things ready for the second half of our trip.  Debi’s father helped me clean out the car.  We even waxed it.  It was looking pretty nice by the time we were done.  Toren went to the park with Rosemary and Debi got some more work…

After the previous day of driving, we tried very hard to do nothing this day.  After close to two weeks on the road, Debi and I also had a backlog of emails to address.  So, we slept in, then did a little bit of work, while Toren played with his Grandmary.  In the afternoon we…

We literally spent the entire day driving.  We made okay time, arriving at Debi’s parents’ house around 6:30 pm.  Debi drove about 3 of the 20 hours; I drove the rest.  Only a couple things of note come to mind from this day. First, I finally, after close to 5,000 miles driving, finished Book 5…

We didn’t actually have very far to drive this day, since we were just headed across Michigan to meet up with one of Debi’s friends.  So, we took our time in the morning.  We went down to the swimming pool and played for a while, then we all took a bubble bath together in our…

This was our biggest day of driving so far on the trip.  We got up after our pleasant night in the tent, packed up, and started west.  We didn’t exactly have to be any where by specific days or times, but we were beginning to think it might be nice to have a few days…

In addition to his hiking hobby, Rick (our host in Maine), collects puzzles, fishes, canoes, and is an amateur pilot.  While on the hike the day before, he asked me if I’d ever flown in a small plane.  Despite the many flights I’ve taken, none of them have been in small planes.  I’ve flown in…