Westward Ho ... again

We're on the road again! Actually we have been on the road the majority of the time since we returned from Alaska in the fall of 2011, but this writer has suffered from severe writer's block (AKA laziness) and has not posted any updates to this journal since that time. We have just departed for a rather long-distance adventure to the Rockies, so I wanted to resurrect this travelog. I hope that once I get started it will begin to flow more freely again. I regret not writing in the interim, because we have done so many interesting things and been to so many interesting places. Not only have friends said they miss our tales, I miss going back and reading them myself. Reading my own past writings brings back the memories of those trips as much as does looking back at the photos.

So off we go. We are heading west towards South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana, then meeting friends in Minnesota for our traditional Boundary Waters wilderness canoe trip. We left home this evening at about 6:00 PM in a light rain. We often like to leave home after the evening rush hour, driving about 3 hours, then spend the night somewhere along the road. We headed north through Virginia and West Virginia and stopped at Tamarack in Beckley WV.  Tamarack is a kinda shopping center/conference center that specializes in West Virginia crafts and folk products. Best of all, it has a dedicated RV parking lot that is very quiet and safe. It is our favorite RV parking spot in all WV. The rain abated and our first night on the road was very nice. Life is still good.