another trip!

We actually begin thinking of this months ago.

Several years ago David and I drove to Death Valley for a few days. It is too long a drive to do in one day, and we did not have too much time. David had one of those real steady job things in those days (we are both retired now).

Still it was good to be warm and to soak up some sun. But we only could stay two or three days then we had to scurry back home.

So this year we started talking about doing it again. The big difference is that we would make it close to a two week trip. Details rolled and boiled. Then it came together.

David would take his Jeep, and we would hook our teardrop. It would just be the three of us. David, Dave and Miriam (I am the Dave of the group)

Last night David arrived, driving from near the Oregon coast over a very lonely, very boring road. How soon could I be ready?

We will leave today. So yesterday I went shopping and MIriam made a few dozen more of her chocolate chip cookies. Those cookies will be the only “desert” for a while.

Juan will keep my newly started vegetable plants watered. When we return there will be more work to do.

I look forward to temps in the 90’s, to wearing shorts, to perspiring a bit now and again.
We don’t have Leo for a few weeks, so that makes the trip a lot easier. But being away from phone and internet and stores means we have to take a LOT of stuff.

I bought some food, mostly canned. I filled pint wide mouth jars (the bands rattle against each other and not the glass in the galley) with staples of all kinds and now we are almost ready to go.

Of course today is a messy rainy day. The wind is blowing and I need to get the bed made in the tear. Imagine making a bed while you were kneeling in the middle of it!

We will be back in a couple of weeks.