Good-bye to Winter

We are enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures and a beautiful blue sky today.  The sunset last night was just amazing, getting brighter and more vivid with each minute.  It makes me somewhat melancholy at the last views of winter.  When we return spring will have broken through and summer will be well on its way. Luckily we were able to make time for a long walk, enjoying the peace of this beautiful place we live.

Back to packing and checking  tasks off the list.  As the mountain of boxes and bags and suitcases grows, I am less confident that we will have the extra room I pledged to make.  On our last trip we brought things that we never used including piles of cold weather gear.  Sure, it was thirty below zero and a blizzard that day and today is sunny an 49, but still, one should try to learn from the past.
Car packed, cat loaded, house locked, travel mugs in cup trays...turn the key, "klick, klick, klick"  Oh man, really?
Luckily the jump charger is not packed too deep and the battery was just run down from keeping the doors open so long as we packed.  Now just to set the record straight, when I say "we"  I really mean Brad.  No one packs like that man.  I build the mountains, he somehow gets them into the car.

Back on track, we head up the driveway. I feel the rush that comes the first day of a road trip, excited for the great adventure, anxious of the challenges that lie ahead and certain that you forgot something obvious and necessary.  The odometer reads 131847.  As I watch the pavement stretch out in front of us, I send love and positive thoughts to the humming motor under the hood.  We logged 8,000 miles on the last trip.  Happy Trails as we head out on this next one.