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Welcome

This is something of a There And Back Again work in progress as many friends and family have asked us to be kept up to date on our first multi-month trek. As such, we expect it to be not too artistic and fairly direct.  So-- 

Snapped by a friendly tourist at
Lake Of The Clouds in Michigan's
UP October. On "permanent vacation",
expect John not shave too very often....

These are the voyages of John & Debbie with a tentative launch a few days later than planned.  But then, that's the way Things usually work.  Especially as this trip is only roughly planned.  

In fact, other than a specific date that Debbie's set with her SoCal brother and a tentative target with John's, we have no plan except to drive across the Mississippi for the third time in our lives and see what's there, and --   yeah, well that pretty much sums it up.  

Here's what we're driving:

It's a relatively palatial 40 foot long Tiffin Allegro Bus.  Something of a step up from our usual camping gear: backpacks, luxurious Thermorests under our sleeping bags, and Platypus bags holding the water to reconstitute our dried food prepared in the kitchen (a 6x4 blue tarp) on the ground outside our small tent.

The snow is a gift from Aunt Michigan to remind us to come home again.

Just ten days ago or so, our front yard looked a bit more inviting.  But it is spring, so the  white stuff melted the next day, just in time to give us "mess issues" with packing and other preparations.

We'll take pictures inside and out and provide much more detail as we go along.  At least we have six new tires!

ps: this is our first-ever blog. We'll get a better handle on that as we go along. Check back sometime.