In the Beginning
Annie is my wife, and Elmo is our dog. We are leaving next Monday to drive from Denton, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska where we plan to stay for a couple of months. Then we plan to drive from Alaska to Maine across Canada and stay in Maine for a couple of months. Then we plan to drive back to Texas. We should be back to Denton in November.
We call these plans,"the plan of the day." Everything changes; nothing remains the same. I know you are thinking, "gosh, how profound." All of us, of course, know that everything changes. The problem is that most of us live our lives like nothing changes. On this journey, we "plan" to live in the reality of change and try to experience that change fully. We have frequently called this, journey travel. If you read this travel journal regularly you will hear me talk about journey travel, and what makes journey travel different from destination travel.
Understand that we are not experts in journey travel; well actually Elmo is an expert. He has a journey life. He takes every day just as it is, experiences every event with all his sences and makes the most of it. Maybe we can learn a little from Elmo.
A few weeks ago I attended our regular Wednesday night prayer meeting at Hannahs. Hannahs has $1.00 Shiner on Wednesday afternoons. I told the guys about our travel plans.
"You are going to drive 12,000 miles in the car with your wife?" Tommy said.
"And Elmo, the dog," I said.
"You are totally nuts," Steve said.
"Tim W. said, "You better put a divorce lawyer on retainer before you leave."
Mike, one of the regulars who was sitting across the table, just happens to be a divorce lawyer. I took a dollar out of my pocket and tossed it across the table to Mike. "Here, you are now on retainer."
Mike tossed it back. "Sorry, Annie has already given me a twenty."
So here is another part of the plan of the day. We are camping on the way, not an RV, tent camping. And the redheaded weather lady on chanel 11 reported snow in southern Colorado yesterday. We were thinking about camping near Trinidad, Colorado next Monday night. Trinidad is in southern Colorado.
posted by Tim Banks @ 9:19 AM
6 Comments:
I don't know what HTML tags are...Hot Tim Mows Lawn?...I look forward to reading about your journey. Am I a blogger or an other? Boy, am I on new ground or something? Well, let's see what happens.
Hi! Just practicing. I'm having a terrible time getting this to work on my computer...testing one, two, three...
OK, it worked that time...I should be go to go...
you did good by going with gasoline...hate to read the paper in a few months about some bodies being found in the Yukon Territory in a hybrid car with no plug-in in sight...besides, think about the poor man,like me, who can't afford a new car, who buys a used hybrid and a few months later is told that it needs a new battery...he is really going to get hammered...anyway, just think of all the rich repuplicans who will be able to buy another oil well for their backyard with all the gas your buying...keep that shiny side up...
Dear anoymous, you are on new ground here, walk carefully. Hybrids don't plug in, ever. As for the batteries, as of 2005, Toyota hadn't had to sell one at all. With gas prices at close to $3, hybrids look pretty darn good, of course don't buy an american one, we are a couple generations behind.
JMB
We're COUNTing on a good acCOUNTing of your journeys. For us our vacations start when we leave home. They are the journey and not the destination. We do suggest a 'get-away' or two from the tent. Maybe stay in a National Park Grand Lodge for a few nights, like at Grand Teton Lodge just north of Jackson Hole or the lodge overlooking Ole' Faithful. Have fun!
JB
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