Wonders Will Most Likely Cease

This post probably jinxes it all buy my God the Orioles are playing good and exciting baseball.

Planning Their Next Crime

 Speaking of the two furried terrors, here they are getting up from their fifth nap of the day.

Across the USA

 

This was my second trip across the USA.  I drove this beast, while my sister drove my Dad's Honda CRV.  Everything went pretty smoothly, even some snowy weather through Utah and Wyoming.  We managed to miss the storm itself by a day, thanks to navigation decisions by my sister.  The highway through Wyoming was absolutely torn up though after the storm, and the biggest worry became monster potholes that had obviously undone a number of 18-wheelers parked on the side of the highway.

This was my second journey across.  Way back in what must have been 2007 (actually it was 2006) I drove from Washington, D.C. to Bellingham, WA to stay with my Dad.  I ended up working in a kayak factory for a year before moving to South Korea to teach English for 12 years.

This time, after cleaning out my Dad's house for sale, we took a more southerly route.  The general goal was five days, four nights.  If memory serves, it was Bellingham to Boise, Boise to Rawlins, Wyoming, Rawlins to Kansas City, Kansas City to Cambridge, Ohio, then Cambridge to the Baltimore area.  (The last day of driving was pleasantly light.)

Rawlins to Kansas City was about 785 in one day.

Anyhow, this is very much a young person's game and I hope I never have to do it again.  Maybe if I was driving in a car with somebody who could take over, but it's just exhausting, and the number of jackasses with licenses in this country knows no bounds.

Worth documenting I guess.  My two kitties were surprisingly well behaved.  I left the Whatcom County Humane Society with a can of cat-targeted pheromone spray, which had the calming effect it was intended to have.  I'd never heard of the stuff, but apparently you can get it over the counter.  There is no version for dogs, as far as I know.

And, Scene

Made it about a week ago.  I only just got out my laptop though and have been on my phone.  Lots of coffee and greasy breakfast sandwiches.  The cats are fine.  My Dad is also doing well.  Nebraska never, ever ends.

USA! USA! USA!

I'm off to drive across America tomorrow.  I'll probably put up some pics on Twitter, but not much here.

It's been a long journey from Daegu to Bellingham and now back to the DC area.  But you should already know my elderly Dad is safe and sound back in Maryland, albeit in a nursing home.  Me and my sister and clearing out the house for resale.  And I've got two new kitties joining us, although I'm sure they'll be miserable for eight to ten hours a day in the car.

Gotta fight through it, my furry little babies.

See you in five days!