Saturday, August 10, 2013

Homebound, into the Lower 48

This should have been Dan's senior class photo.
Only 10 days until I’m home?!?!  Time and miles sure fly by when yer havin’ a gud time!

Mile 10,040, Casper, Wyoming:  Brother Dan and I have been road tripping together for 10 days now. With a little help from the friendly Canadian border patrol, we decided to re-route our path to south of the CAN-US border.  The gorgeous beaches of Oregon; the solitude and majesty of Hells Canyon and Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, and Grand Tetons, WY; free camping in an abandoned, ripe orchard with a fearless Mule Deer herd, a swimming moose, a fat black bear and a nightly diving swallow air show; savoring Tillamook cheese curds and Ore-Ida tater tots close to the source; and our obsession with beating the other in a newly-invented license plate identification game have filled our days with much oo-ing and aw-ing, lots of laughs, great conversation and debates, and, of course, a few new friends. (BTW, Dan’s winning the License Plate game, but not by much...there’s still time! But with him siting a U.S. Virgin Islands plate!?!  Hard to beat that! Where are you, Guam?!)
7th grade sense of humor still in there!

We have 3-4 more days to reach St. Paul, Minnesota.  Today’s agenda in Douglas, WY: tubing a river with some locals and checking out the Wyoming State Fair!  A wish come true: time to don the Stetson and check out those cute Wyoming animals.  Demolition Derby, anyone?




 Two new photo albums:

British Colombia Homebound

Oregon and Idaho with Bro Dan


 

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