Hello all,
First of all, we know that we might have left some folks off distribution of this blog site by pure task overload on our part. If you know of anyone contemplating such an adventure or if you know of anyone who might be sufficiently bored and needs to get out more, feel free to share the URL around. Even strangers! One never knows where their next friend is coming from.
We spent the night in Bozeman Montana purely on a whim by me. One of my all time favorite books is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. This is not a quick nor easy read but it is an interesting read and I recommend it. It most likely is NOT an airline book [the kind I used to buy at one end of a trip and discard into the trash on the other end]. At any rate, the author used to teach at the University of Montana in Bozeman. For only that reason I wanted to see the English department he taught in while he was going through his trials and tribulations. Hence the night in Bozeman. It is nice to indulge one's whims now and again.
The scenary and such at the park yesterday was once again spectacular. I find that we are very quickly running out of superlatives in describing what we are seeing. I ask for your indulgence in this as we try new ways of describing what we are witnessing. After all, it isn't every day in our little town of Rochester that we encounter a herd of elk pooping on the sideway with a nervous male elk huffing his hormonal message to his harem on the front lawn of the park service hotel. Hot springs everywhere and it made me very mindful of another book by Bill Bryson where he describes the caldera that is Yellowstone Park and what it means for our planet. Let me just say, it makes global warming irrelevant in either the near or far term.
Trek north to Somers Bay just outside of Kalispell. Actually the scenery was mostly New England like so while pretty, it felt more like 'home' than any place we have been to thus far on the trip.
We have enjoyed the chance encounters with all manner of people, some longer than others, that one meets on the road. Vastly different than business travel in the most part where the emphasis is often on speed and efficiency. I suspect the difference is less with the style of travel and more with where I am at.
We are headed to Bryan and Linda's camp in British Columbia in Canada tomorrow for a few days. Very much looking forward to seeing them again as they are also Jamaican Graduates. Very easy company.
Hope all is well with everyone who reads this note. Write when you can as we both enjoy getting your comments which come out on my blackberry as we drive along.
Matt
