• Tweaking for June 1st 'Groot Trek' (Big

    May 14, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F

    I have a feeling that both Connie and myself were viewing the shakedown tour to the Chiricahuas as a test of whether we could make it on a three to four months tour together and roughing it in national forests. I checked more than once with Connie last night and today, and yes it seems that all is "Go" as far as the two of us are concerned.

    What remains for us in the next two weeks is to tweak everything like fastening the screws on the inside of the cabinets in the RV so that handles don't come flying off when the door crashes as we move, making certain the solar panels on the roof are secure and tweaking our art supplies, the photographic stuff and getting everything ship-shape before we lift off June 1st.

    Tentatively we might head back to the Chiricahuas for a while, then again it's tentative head north to Mount Graham and then to Colorado, sometime around the beginning of July. It's all tentative and unfortunately it's also due to the confounding variable of the climate crisis and the fire threat in the forests.
    But, intrepid charioteers that we are... we'll see how things go.
    For now: "We're ready... let's go!"
    "It is a great and wonderful thing, to kneel, and kiss the Earth."
    Jack + Connie.
    Charioteer and Charioteer-in-Chief (respectively).
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