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I have a few blog posts ready to go, but even when I pay I can’t seem to get anything to upload.  Sitting here at the Coal Creek Café, a delightful little place at mile 550 or so getting close to Llaird Hot Springs where we plan to swim and then camp tonight at Muncho Lake a bit farther down the road.  We spent another day in Haines, traveled north again to Haines Junction, and east on the Alaska Highway to boondock first in Robinson and last night at Irons Creek.  Eventually we will get real internet again and I will catch up the daily posts which are actually ready to go.  Will probably be in Dawson Creek and Mile 0 in 3 more days.  If all else fails, I hear I can grab the wifi there at Super 8!  All is well, we again have brilliant sunny skies, great photos of black bear and another bull moose, and still lots of open road to ourselves here in BC. 

At last, the trip begins.  It will be simple at first, familiar routes, boondocking on the Columbia, visiting with my daughter near Toppenish.  We don’t expect to be in Canada until Friday.  I don’t know how often I will have an internet connection, but will write daily and post when I can.  Yes, I am excited.  The MoHo is ready to go, the car hooked up.  Last minute lists include unplugging the computer and making sure I have the power cord.

See ya!!

 

I am here, reading when I can, but haven’t been able to comment, either with my XP machine or my new Windows7 machine. It’s cold and rainy in Rocky Point, I am working at home and gardening in between rain storms. Nothing much going on at the moment, but it’s been awhile, and since I can’t comment, thought maybe I should just drop a line. Haven’t heard from Russ and Donna K lately either, so hoping all is ok there.

My son and his extended family living in Joplin are all OK, but it has been a terrifying week for him. For a long time we were only able to communicate via text message, but isn’t that amazing? No phones work, but he got a message to me saying he was alive and his step daughter was in the WalMart (where she works) but alive. They put 8 women in the women’s bathroom and they all lived. They had 11 men go to the men’s bathroom, and it was obliterated and the men have not yet been found. He says the devastation is far worse than you can imagine. I know that many of us have been in this part of the country traveling in May, so I am counting blessings and praying for those not spared.

A bit later now, I have discovered if link to a blog from my followed list on my own blog, after I have logged in to blogger in draft, then I seem to be able to comment, at least more often than not. Who knows what that is about, but thought I would mention it.

I don’t blog every day, but I usually try to read the blogs I follow.  My heart hurts for a fellow blogger and blog mentor and I just wanted to add my condolences to Al and Kelly for the loss of Checkers. Somehow it never seems OK that we last so long and our animals cannot be with us for the whole journey.  After all, parrots and elephants live as long as we do.  Not dogs.  Not kitties.  Our hearts break over and over, and we still keep loving and sharing our lives with them.  Big Sigh.  I’ll add my condolences on Al’s blog, along with the many other folks out there in blog world who have followed the Bayfield Bunch and Checkers across the desert southwest. Somehow just a comment didn’t seem enough.