Friday, August 04, 2006
SWEATING IT OUT MISSOURI TO CONNECTICUT
Everyone thought we were crazy to go cross country in a 1987 Jeep Cherokee - well here we are having passed over the past few days through Kentucky, West Virginia, quick detour into Ohio (just for Jeanne to check off another state), along the top of Maryland, long stretch through Pennsyvania and now in Connecticut and the old bus is still going strong. Mostly we've tootled along at around 55 mph to save on gas - have you ever been overtaken by a swimming pool? We have! (see photo to prove it). The crazy part is that the Jeep has no AC and we've been hitting record temperatures every day. Travelling up to six or seven hours a day in 100 plus degrees has not been the fun part. But we're surviving and still having fun. Lots of water, wound down windows and stops at Dairy Queens has helped - and we've also splashed out (ha! ha!)a couple of time on hotels with swimming pools. No time for sightseeing so the photos are just glimpses of what we saw on the way.
Meet us in St. Louis
More visiting with relatives. We visited the Botanical Gardens where the plants were augmented by a display of glass sculptures. The visit was cut short by record high temperatures and sweat dripping humidity and we sought out the cooler climate of a wonderful Benjamin Franklin exhibition.
Blue Lupin Press - business as usual!
Still in Aurora, Dan spent the day fretting that a new supply of Turnabaout DVDs would arrive before we had to leave. Here he is scurrying to meet the UPS brown van at the end of the road to the farm.
And as you can see after that he needed a break.
Down on the farm in Missouri
The reason we dropped down to Missouri was to visit Dan's sister Eva and her husband Wes, seen here along with son Colin at a family dinner. The weather remained hot and now humid but we enjoyed chilling out together and a trip around the farm.
Monday, July 31, 2006
At this point our camera pooped out
. . . so we have no photos of our long journey across North Dakota, where we visited with Dan's son Joe, daughter-in-law Rebecca, and Dan's delightful twin grandchildren, Alex and Katie. Sorry. . .
Part of the elk herd on the Bowman ranch
You'll have to look closely, but they ARE there. About 75 of them roam the 5000 acres. Used to be a private hunting preserve, but Montana outlawed such enterprises a while back.
Lynn Bowman's 5000 acres
... ok, just a section of them. That's Lynn on the right, author of our latest book, Who's My Enemy? about his experiences during the Vietnam War. (Dan's on the left.)
Great Falls
Yep, we're still in Montana, folks (it's a BIIIIGGGGG state). They wouldn't recognize it, but this is one of the places that Lewis and Clark described in their journals.
Onwards across beautiful Montana
Mountains then more mountains, before it eventually becomes quite flat.
Helena, Montana - We sold a book!
...more than one, actually. And the bookshop liked our work well enough to purchase several copies of each.
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