More details - we are in the Internet Coffee Station in Stevensville, Montana, I am dining on the hummus plate and Dennis is enjoying the Southwest wrap - yum.  I have been through here on a bicycle trip 24 years ago and it's changed a bit...  Still lovely scenery, though.  dw

first post second day

Update:  Depending on how available WiFi connections are, we may not make entries every day.  Right now we're having lunch just south of Missoula.  If we connect (if anyone should read this, this is an insertion test from a later date) again we'll write more later.  DA

blog day 4 - 2052

Guess it's my turn since Dennis wrote yesterday.  Pretty much a full day of preparation for both of us, packing, errands, compulsive cleaning.  Ok that last was me.  I had to ask Dennis to tell me to stop as I was crawling under the cabinet in the bathroom vacuuming out leftover construction debris from 20 years ago and couldn't stop myself.  Well, when you start vacuuming with a flashlight and can see those vacuumed lines of erased dust it's very satisfying and a tad addictive...  I finished the cleanup and went on to something more relevant - my traveling project.  Off to the knitting store to peruse sock patterns to use with royal blue sock yarn I already have and found a "leaf lace sock" pattern that will keep me occupied in the evening hours of motel rooms.  Also picked up 2 skeins of cobalt violet cotton 80%/wool 20% to make a modern
doily.   That's where I'll leave it for today.  Oh yeah, I did pack a suitcase...  dw

prep time

  Spent the day getting ready to leave.  Mostly attending to small details:  mowed the lawn -- new battery for camera -- reload photo programs into the computer (continuing to fix the "fixes" done by a friend)  -- arrange my multitude of pills into a travel box --  grease and fix my knee brace which started to come apart when I walked this morning -- and etc.  of interest to no one, including myself --  But I needed an entry for today lest our fan base be disappointed  DA

blog - day 2, 2057

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're trying to get this thing going.  Seems a tad testy in it's specificity needs.  But that's the computer...  Well, I got something done today -started packing by pulling clothes out of drawers to make room for the house sitter so she has someplace to put her own duds while monitoring our high maintenance house (lots of idiosyncracies).  Cleaned up the closet which will be hers for 4-6 weeks and then lay down for a nap after all the activity.  Now I am returning from saying goodbye to one of the geeks from work (she quit to do better things) and enjoying a pastry coated sausage and a Guinness with a friend at the Moon and Sixpence.  I do recommend the sausage, very tasty.  dw

d and d on the road again

This is a test script.  We'll actually be on the road after Monday, Sept. 6.  Any entries before that may or may not be interesting, but they definitely won't be on the road.  DA
      Anyone know of any weird, unique, wonderful, intriguing sights between PDX and Wis. let us know...  Later, dw