The below photo is of Donner surveying the empty, wide West Main Street in Salina Utah on Thanksgiving Day. (The WWII POW camp was located at the very end of the street.)
The first thing i gave thanks for today was for my travel companion Donner. What a smart decision it was to fly to LA on the spur of the moment last to rescue him.
The second thing was for that Donner and I are both safe and well, despite a few extraordinary challenges this trip has posed for us, with more still to come.
The third thing was for everyone who is reading this blog, religiously or occasionally. I will admit that i felt a personal sense of obligation to post something every day when i had internet to give you a sense of what these long road trips entail, and that helped me crystallize my thinking about the day. But i will also readily admit that i did not expect it to be this long or to have to deal with so many problems. My hope is that we are down to our last three problems, how to get me and Donner, the Defender , and the roof rack back to DC safely. We will do it, and we will win.
I hope immediately upon return home to write an article for some paper about this trip, especially the formidable problems encountered and their solutions, of which there were many, flashing back to the problems encountered on my seven prior trips across this great continent. Whether i am successful or not, you can say you were part of this trip because i know that if i didnt know you were out there, this trip would have been different and would be ending differently. (One person, Stefanie, even jumped from in front of her computer into the driver's seat of the Defender in the fashion of someone diving headfirst into a video game. How cool was that?) Thank you all for that.
I hope immediately upon return home to write an article for some paper about this trip, especially the formidable problems encountered and their solutions, of which there were many, flashing back to the problems encountered on my seven prior trips across this great continent. Whether i am successful or not, you can say you were part of this trip because i know that if i didnt know you were out there, this trip would have been different and would be ending differently. (One person, Stefanie, even jumped from in front of her computer into the driver's seat of the Defender in the fashion of someone diving headfirst into a video game. How cool was that?) Thank you all for that.
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