The thoughtful adventures of Man, Woman and Cat.
I took delivery of Peggy, my new truck, just after the first of the year. After a shakedown trip to Florida with the new camper, I departed Georgia on the third of June. On September 21 I arrived in Fortuna, California, the unofficial turnaround point of my 2018 odyssey . Up until now I had been travelling to get here, when I leave Humboldt County I will be travelling back to Georgia.
Things didn’t begin well for my visit to Glacier. First I found the antique reservation system the National Park Service uses makes it virtually impossible to use unless you are willing to hover over your computer six months in advance as if you were sniping an eBay auction. Private parks weren’t a great option either, as they were cashing in on the situation and charging in the neighborhood of a hundred bucks a night to stay at a KOA outside the gates.
Continue reading “Glacier National Park (sort of) – Shelby Montana to Moscow Idaho”
One of the seminal events of kid life is learning to ride a bicycle. When you graduate from three wheels to two, suddenly you experience a new freedom through mobility and your world expands beyond the line of sight from your front porch. Supposedly the average age for learning to ride a bike is five, but for me, this didn’t happen until I was closer to ten. Continue reading “Return to Banta 3 (Learning from your mistakes)”