There have been a few tense moments here at the Highland Village Hospital. I have tried to stay occupied outside the “waiting room” by doing a few menial tasks of my own, like changing a couple of burned out blubs in the Winnie, changing out the air filter and cabin filter, and cleaning and washing her inside and out…..just short of pacing as the two “smiling surgeons” keep assuring me that everything is progressing nicely in the lane next to me. Continue reading
I send “email postcards” to friends and family along the way with jokes about towing “The Hearse” behind me for 1,760 miles. A steady week of blacktop camping has me wandering the aisles to count dead animal heads in Cabelas, trying to sleep while the Winnie’s walls rumble all night in the Flying J advertising “over 150 Truck parking spaces,” and being woken up at 2:00am in the Walmart parking lot so they could repaint the yellow stripes beneath me. All while working a full 40 hour week. It was a memorable week, to say the least. Continue reading
My original plan was to hike to Iceberg Lake on my last day in Glacier National Park. The weather forecast predicts an ideal day for it. But it’s Friday with the weekend closing in, so I think instead the more “responsible” thing to do is to get the little Tracker in for a diagnosis. Continue reading