The people along the way......

 7:19 am - Saturday - October 10th - LPG&RVR - 40° F, humidity 51%, cloud cover  43%, wind 11 mph out of the north by northwest......cloudy today with a forecast high of 64° F.  On this date in 2023 TLE and I were near Deer Lodge, MT....

.....spending time with my sister and brother-in-law at their home at Rock Creek Cattle Company.

Friday was a busy day, and we accomplished a lot.  All of the stuff outside the trailer Thursday morning is now inside the trailer, and all the sun shades are stowed.....

....all that remains now is to move TLE's plants into the front of the trailer on that rug in the picture above.  All that stuff you see in the background is why the VW cannot be inserted this time around.  Saturday morning (today) we will stow the patio awning, and all the window awnings, wash the VW, wash the driver side of the Newell, dump the black tank one more time,  disconnect the utilities, drop the trailer on the Newell hitch, and head south on US-395.  All of that will take a few hours, which is fine as we are only driving 85 miles Saturday to Honey Lake Rest Area, so we don't need to leave until 1, or 2 pm.

We saw our last sunset Friday night at LPG&RVR....

....and will see our last sunrise Saturday morning as we change our view for the first time in almost 6 months.  Around 4:40 pm we headed up the hill to visit with Duke and Cindy Golden to have drinks and say our 'until next times'....

.....we were home a little after 6:30 pm, at which time TLE made hot pastrami sandwiches for our latish dinner.  Life is good, and within 24 hours we will begin our final journey in the Newell south to The Wilson Wilderness. The memories of the last 16 years of our life living in the Newell, and 15 years of fulltime travel are swirling around in my mind as I write this morning.  Duke and Cindy are typical of the people we have met along the way, and we will remain in contact with them, just as so many others.  We still have contact with the friends we made at our first Amazon gig back in 2012.  It is exactly 14 years to the month since we met Michael, Liz, Jim, Sharon, Richard and Pat at Amazon....the first of many, many nomads we still call friends today.  

Okay, time to begin the final hours of the take down of site #55....thank you, as always, for stopping by!