Day 42, The Trip So Far, 7564 miles, beautiful West Virginia, 190 to DC

I get the feeling i should have been home yesterday.

Day 34, The Trip So Far, 6824 miles, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, on the grand Colorado River, the real end of Act IV

What a way to end Act IV! Even Donner thinks so. Tonight, for the first time on this trip, declined to go into the tent right after it was set up, or before it was finished being set up, as he is sometimes wont to do.

Day 32, The Trip So Far, Grand Canyon , 6122 miles

The trip has been nothing short of splendid, but we still have 2500 miles to go.

Day 14,:The Trip So Far , Mt Rainier National Park, 3495 miles. 264 miles to the Pacific and 1364 miles to the moon

Sadly, tonight marks the halfway point of On The Road 10, not counting the dreaded six-day journey eastward from the Rockies and my usual decompression period at a cabin in West Virginia or Western Maryland before arriving home in November. Tomorrow, Monday, we hope to make it to the Pacific coast, either to that black dot on the Washington shore or, several days later, the red dot on the Vancouver Island Pacific coast, but the latter would require at least six extra days, so i may have to pass on that. Where we go after several days on the Pacific coast i do not yet know. But we will go somewhere, God and Defender willing.

Day 13, trip so far, Emigrant Springs State Park, Oregon, 3179 miles, about 1180 to the Moon

Long drive today, 364 miles, but stunning once out of Idaho. Aimed to get into camp at 5, and made it at 540, just in time to complete the evening's outdoor activities and get in tent by disappearance of useable daylight. Wonderful camp, set in a pine grove forest, lots of tenters.

Day 7, As It Is Happening, On The Road to Wyoming

At a rest stop Heading toward Buffalo WY tonight. Now i start diverging from my route last year.(That's another story.) Just passed Mt Rushmore, also is another story. As for present stories, i discovered this morning that i lost the lid yesterday on my food container, 2nd thing from the right on the roof rack. I covered it with a tarp for the time being and picked up a new container at, you guessed it, a Walmart in Rapid City. It was my own fault once again. More on that latter. Now, time to get On The Road.

Ed and Donner, from the road, on I-90 heading toward Wyoming.

Day 5, the trip so far, 1745 miles, Badlands National Park, western South Dakota

Made it here promptly at 5. Got all the chores done in two hours and then the drizzle came.