Top 10 Things I will Not Miss About Traveling
10. The hundred yard dash to the potty (in the darkness at 2 am)
9. WiFi that doesn’t reach the trailer, and when it does, has the bandwidth of a silly straw (with a spit ball stuck in it)
8. Searching for travel stickers in places that don’t have them – or finding too many stickers (and having a hard time choosing the right one)
7. Arriving at each new campsite and building our house
6. Breaking our house down a couple of days later when we leave
5. Sand in our beds
4. Grizzly Bears in our campground at night (Yellowstone)
3. Traveling companions who do not appreciate statistics as much as I do
2. The nefarious pop-up gnome that hides our glasses, cell phones, keys, chargers, iPhones and iTouches under the cushions and mattresses
1. $1250 air conditioning in the van that you turn on by rolling the windows down
Top 10 Trip Memories
10. High fiving each other as we crossed the 10,000 foot Powder River Pass in Wyoming, as Boston blared on the speakers
9. Watching “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” in Fort Smith, Arkansas and having the theater to ourselves (AC, pop corn and Coke!)
8. The thrill of accelerating to 120 mph in 4 seconds at Cedar Point, Ohio after waiting 90 minutes in anticipation (also relaxing where we got the sign made later that day)
7. The feel of the wind and the beauty of the prairie sunset at Pipestone, Minnesota
6. Enjoying the natural hot tub where the hot springs mingled with the cold Gardner River – and Huckleberry ice cream afterward (Yellowstone)
5. The wonderful meal at Harry’s Roadhouse moments after we arrived in Santa Fe
4. The hike through Biscuit Basin and to Mystic Falls our first day in Yellowstone
3. Enjoying the outdoor concert the Pleasure Pilots played while everyone danced on the Plaza in Santa Fe
2. Hiking that beautiful section of the Mickelson Trail with Jim and David in the Black Hills of South Dakota
1. Watching the sunrise with Vicki and the international collection of “worshipers” at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Sunday morning (we all said "Ahh!" in a common language at the magic moment)
Top 10 Quirky Things We Saw on the Trip
10. The old-school aqua/deep blue Winnebago’s out west
9. The Largest Cross in the Western Hemisphere in Groom, Oklahoma
8. The stinkiest porta-potty in the world near our campsite in Baraboo, Wisconsin
7. People trying to pet bison along the road in Yellowstone despite numerous warnings about bison goring and killing tourists
6. People hiking in the Arches National Park desert in sandals and miniskirts (the rangers were rescuing one of them the last night we were there)
5. Rain/dust storm combos in northern Arizona (twice in one afternoon)
4. Cereal that climbed to $7 a box as you got farther away from civilization
3. A motorcycle with a dog cage strapped to the back seat with a rat dog riding calmly behind the driver (somewhere in Wyoming)
2. Skye-Boy spontaneously pooping in the back seat and crawling into Vicki’s lap (she was driving) on I-40 somewhere between Memphis and Nashville (he had tried hard to tell us, but we thought he wanted water - and when you gotta go, you gotta go)
1. The weirdo taking pictures after dark at Grand View Point Overlook in Canyonlands National Park (oh, that was me!)
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