I'll be honest: the first stretch of our cross-country trip was exhausting. It's tough to set up camp and then take it down in 15 hours or less, especially after a long day of driving. Plus with extreme heat, lots of mosquitoes, and surprising sources of stress (Paco shivering from fright on curvy mountain roads, spotting a black bear a couple miles from the cabin in Montana, yellow jackets infesting our campsite in eastern Washington, tempers flaring, etc.) I arrived in Portland dirty, tired, full of bug bites, extra freckles, and chapped lips that remained a lovely (but painful) deep red color until I finally was able to recover from my dehydration days later.
That being said, there were some lovey moments on the trip. Lola turned out to be a champion car-dog as she would nap or stare out the window. We got faster at packing up camp in the morning and we made some delicious food even for being prepared on a one-burner propane stove. We saw beautiful scenery, witnessed a bison and the full moon in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and had lunch with Jessie and Dori at a state park in Wisconsin as we crossed paths going in opposite directions across the country.
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| The surprisingly pleasant little enclave campsite at Minneapolis' NW KOA |
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| More beauty at Teddy Roosevelt |
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| Bison at Teddy Roosevelt |
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