Bon Voyage

I now sit in seat 19A looking out the window at partially cloudy skies. Earlier we spent a tense fifteen minutes using the Wii balance board to weigh our luggage and shift items around to keep everything under the 50 pound limit. As always we go back with more stuff than we came with. In the end we were forced to wear our jeans and hiking boots to just squeeze by the weight limit. We also sadly said our goodbyes to Emily, who has been a great travel companion, DJ, and expert guest blogger for the final leg of our trip. [NAG: She really needs to start her music blog soon] :-P

In all we drove over 3000 miles in Neo (many of those on narrow, windy roads). We saw 5 National Parks, 8 National Forests, and 2 National Monuments. We both went to Montana for the first time and I also had my first experiences in Idaho and Wyoming. Along the way we encountered bison, pronghorn, elk, deer, grizzly bears, black bears, coyotes, many birds and small mammals, a ring-tail (monkey), and some awesome microbial mats. Most importantly we got to spend some quality time with family and some really good friends!




Now back to our day to day lives for a while. We can't wait to see Bear, Sooke, and Curiosity!



- Posted by Shawn from our iPad

Location:Somewhere over Arizona