We borrowed a Class-C RV from a dear old friend. We drove north from Boulder, CO to the Black Hills of SD; east across The Great Plains and New England to Kennebunk, ME. Our return trip took us southwest through Shenandoah National Park to Boone, NC; then west through Nashville, TN, St. Louis and Columbia, MO, and back to Boulder.
We talked about the Lakota people, about Crazy Horse, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, about Lewis & Clark while driving through The Badlands and when we crossed the Missouri River. Dignity faces the rest stop near a campsite of Lewis & Clark and their company of explorers.
We admired Chicago from a distance as we stretched our legs at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Century of Progress Homes. We had intended to see the Indiana Dunes National Park but missed in our navigation.
visited Caroline on a marsh between Toledo and Sandusky
spent the night in Kinderhook, NY.
couple weeks in Kennebunk, ME. Woods, a tidal river, time with the dogs at the beach, surfing. goodbye ceremony for my friend, Shannon.
missed Philadelphia
slow drive and struggled for campfire and marshmallows in Shenandoah. Reading more from Christopher Alexander, et al A Pattern Language in preparation for the next day...
University of Virginia Lawn—our unexpected first campus visit with our teenage son. Grounds around the Michie Tavern. Monticello. More conversations about heroic greatness and profound disillusionment in slavery.
Boone, NC. Sarah's best friend.
Nashville, St. Louis—there's Lewis & Clark & Jefferson again—stopping in Columbia, MO. One of my best friends.
Finally home.