It’s now been a full month and we are still on the road in our Airstream! It’s been a terrific adventure. Some challenges, of course, but it’s been mostly an amazing time, with lots of incredible sights and good memories. We are now heading south into the Utah desert to try to stay ahead of the colder weather that’s arriving.

1. Sylvan Lake in Custer State Park, SD
2. Devils Tower, WY
3. Scenery in the Black Hills of SD
4. A bit of fall color visible from our boondocking campsite in the Bighorn National Forest
5. Exploring the Bighorn area with the dogs
6. Our campsite outside of Cody, WY
7. Detail of geothermal pool at Yellowstone NP
8. Yellowstone
9. Exploring the Shoshone River in Buffalo Bill State Park
10. The views along Chief Joseph Hwy in WY
11. The Tetons
12. The view from our Harvest Host camping location, overlooking the Snake River, in Alpine WY
13. Sunset mountains in Yellowstone
14. Sunset in Alpine WY
15. Sunset at Bear Lake on the ID/UT border
16-18 Exploring Bear Lake. J found a chupacabra skull (haha, actually maybe a goat?).
19. Sunset near Green River, WY
20. Steinaker State Park near Vernal, UT. There was a big cloud of smoke or dust that made a golden haze over the scenes I photographed that day. Made for some really unusual light as the sun set.
21. Badlands near Vernal
22-24. Dinosaur National Monument, UT
25. The view from our campsite at Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, UT

These are all iPhone pics. I’m not using my “real” camera every day as my husband gets impatient with my relentless picture-taking, even when it’s just the phone! Some of the pictures I’m sharing were actually taken from a moving vehicle (it’s hard to find pull off spots in a big rig!).

We are finding it really freeing to have this self-contained method of travel. Our contact with other people has been minimal. We go grocery and supply shopping here and there, and get some carry-out meals a couple of times a week, and wear our masks even though in many places people seem oblivious. But we chatted with a really nice young man who pumped our gas in Price, UT yesterday who had Covid, and his parents (ages 59 and 62) had it too. It took him two months to feel normal again and his parents are still recovering. It was a stark reminder to keep taking it seriously.

We voted by mail — dropped off our absentee ballots at a post office in Green River, WY. We are planning on being somewhere with decent internet access on Nov 3 so we can watch election return coverage, and praying that it is a happier experience than that night was four years ago.

Other than trying to make sure my clothing selections each day are clean enough and appropriate for the weather, I am all but oblivious of my style for now. A mouse got into our trailer at one point and managed to ruin two items — both black tee shirts, including my favorite Madewell tee, and a brand new WoolX tee (that one was at least salvageable for sleepwear). And my old Lucky straight leg jeans developed a weird stain after being washed in a campsite laundry facility. Oh well! This is why I bring stuff camping that can get destroyed.

Hoping you are all doing well!