Broadway Inn Conference Center Missoula

I managed to work/run/stress myself sick. I took off work and sat in bed for 16 hours yesterday and feel a little better.. things are a little crazy right now with planning and work preparation but it's all going well thus far (in terms of everything except my health). I have planned the Iceland part of the trip more detailed than the rest since I don't have much time ...

... away,my eggs are getting cold" look.I'm generally perfect as usual, but evidently, I can be grumpy and sarcastic.I don't see,however, what's wrong with wearing clothes two days in a row if you don't spill anything on them. My only problem is MY ASS HURTS! Honestly, we're having a ball.I'm going to try to send this before Linda sees it.

... definitely worth checking out.<br><br>We are now in a fancy dancy KOA campground in Missoula, where we were able to take a shower for the first time since we left. I smelled like roses the whole time, but Jess on the other hand, ( I just got punched), smelled lovely too.<br><br> Tomorrow were off to Bozeman, then Yellowstone.<br><br>See ya,<br><br>Nic and Jess<br><br>

... heat but instead it is green.<br><br>It rained off and on all afternoon plus it wasn't much over 60 so us Floridians were in our sweat shirts and long pants.<br><br>Tomorrow will be another short day to our next stop which will be for 4 days.<br><br>We have been close to 2800 miles (on the motorhome) and we haven't made it to the west coast.

... is the only way to travel and get the true taste and touch, of a new place. Plus, you save a lot of money on stuff that's not really important. Now, for you old folks, I know what your thinking. "Brandon, you're so easy to please." Well, you're right. But you could offer a couch to a stranger... The people you meet somewhere are what make a place special and couch surfers have turned out to be very special people.

We stopped into visit Jim Sampson in Missoula, Montana. Coach Samps was Darren's assistant coach at UTSA and still has a lot of dirt on him from his college days. Darren was able to go fly-fishing on the Clark Fork River in the morning with a ...

... we saw it. The sun peaked out even before the hail stopped created a surreal atmosphere. Just as quickly as it came, the storm blew over the hills to the north leaving piles of hail on the ground. On Sunday, we had waffles with huckleberries and whip cream (yum!) and relaxed on the ranch, enjoying the sun in the hammocks out back. That evening we went into ...

... Ren was tired. Most of all, though, I was hoping for a friend. A like-minded, like-aged mom (and whole family) whose comraderie would make us feel more like Missoulians and less like overzealous tourists. It took nearly a week of calling to have a conversation. I left a message and then tried calling a few times a day, finally deciding they must be on vacation. Then we ran into them at the water park, but Claire couldn't talk; she was with ...

... Five minutes after we plugged it into the train, my computer died. I mean really dead. Hard drive unrecoverable. I didn't utterly panic - anything critical is backed up at home - but remember, I was not coming home for five weeks. There went our backup plan for fussy kids. I had some crazy plan to find a computer repair center during our four-hour layover in Chicago. You can imagine how successful that was. "Maybe we should get a portable DVD player," Joe ...