Comfort Inn Missoula

... For now, I must head his request. He is right, I should be out playing with him rather than posting a travel entry not slated to get published for another 5.5 months.
But, I had to mess around with things to get the hang of them you know?
Alright, Alright, Kingston.
I'm getting off now......

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.

Well.....

We solved the "over heating" issue for now, turned out it was only the need for a new radiator cap. Our old cap was weak sauce apparently, couldn't handle the pressure. We'll see what happens when we hit the Rockies though....
After we left the dodge dealership this morning we made it all the way through the "skinny" part of Idaho, but it sure didn't ...

... heat but instead it is green.

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.

Tomorrow will be another short day to our next stop which will be for 4 days.

We have been close to 2800 miles (on the motorhome) and we haven't made it to the west coast.

... been privy to, on my adventure. The whole idea of couch surfers and trying to make the world a better place, one couch at a time, could be a nieve idea. But I have seen first hand, the love and kindness people can show to a complete stranger, and it can be overwhelming. I have become a full advocate of the couch surfing community and spirit. It's what people did before there were hotels and hostels, and in my ...

... br>  Then the highlight of the drive was when a bald eagle flew right over the coach!  (Too fast for me to get a picture but close enough that I could tell for sure that it was one.)  We arrived at the Missoula KOA about 4:00 PM; here we look forward to a full battery, full clean water tank and empty everything else.  Oh, and did I mention they have ...

... its inhabitants, who by and large exhibit such a great appreciation of the wild, still rely on cars to get into the wilderness. Does it have to be that way? But on to houses. Daniel Quinn, in Beyond Civilization, quotes statistics (I know not where from, or how reliable) saying that hunter-gatherer individuals spend (spent? Are any left?) on average 400 Calories a day to get their 2000. We modern industrialized folks spend 1000 - and I doubt that total includes all the fossil ...

... collection of baked goods, coffee, plant starts, flowers, every imaginable vegetable and an amazing 86% of Missoula's population in attendance. But I don't know exactly how they coax those plants out of the beautiful but dry earth here - how much irrigation it takes, or how fast things will grow, or what pests might assail them. I know there will be crowds at Splash Montana, but one can only stand to absorb so much chlorine, and I have as of yet been too chicken to ...

... go. To quote my friend Lori, "You can swing a dead cat in this place and hit one!". I'm pretty sure I could be engaged by next Friday. I'm amazed. Also, I go by Elle McPhearson here. I'm not kidding. Complete supermodel and I didn't even know it. I saw someone wearing a raspberry scrunchie with a raspberry shirt (let this be a warning to you Dara!). Pony tails, no make up, hiking boots. I feel like I walked ...