We're Here!

The family truckster rolled into Spokane just a little after 5 this afternoon at the end of a 1700 mile jaunt from St. Paul, Minnesota through the wilds of the Dakotas and Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and finally eastern Washington. When we hit home there was my buddy Brady out in the cul-de-sac to greet us. At this point he was fully clothed, but that didn't last for long. There is something about almost 4 year old boys and nudity that just has to happen. Brady's older sister Jillian had her 9th birthday party earlier this afternoon...before we arrived on scene...with a whole bunch of young girls in attendance. We rolled in after most had gone home, but there were still a couple of hangers on. The party had moved to the hot tub at the home of the hosts...our neighbors across the way...and Brady took the opportunity to bare it all. It just had to happen!

I mentioned that yesterday the weather was very nice for our journey on down the Spokane Trail from the heartland of the country. Today was pretty good too. We left Sheridan, WY with the sun shining, and it was pretty much that way through Billings to Bozeman, Montana. After that we drove through a few mountain showers, but it wasn't anything too annoying. There isn't much in the way of road construction going on yet (emphasis on YET) so we made very good time. The one thing that I did find a little surprising is that cows can fly. That has to be the case judging by the size of the splotches on the windshield that we encountered on the entire trip westward from Wisconsin and Minnesota. We stopped more frequently to wash the windshield than we did to add gas to the tank.