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Well, after spending a week in Indianapolis, I decided I better come up with a plan. Right now, travel assignments are scarce. I have over the last few years accumulated a lot of “stuff”. Stuff from my RV, trips to the craft stores, trips to Barnes and Noble. This has amassed in a rather large amount of stuff. I have a storage room in Springfield ( I had to head to Louisiana in a hurry), I have storage in Indianapolis, and a portion of my son’s garage harbors clothes, etc..  Not to mention my now crusty ol’ RV.  So I decided to consolidate. I sold my RV, thought that might be hard, but it was more of a good riddance. I went to Springfield to get it. It had a flat!. I had to use Fix a Flat, because I could find no one to fix it fast. I hobbled back to Indianapolis, with my lights flickering off and on, and when I dropped the jacks to that sucker, I walked away thinking, if someone doesn’t buy it, I’m pushing it off a cliff. I did get it sold.

So, I packed up my stuff in Indiana, in a uhaul, headed out to Springfield, and packed up that storage container, and I was on my way back to home sweet home, Seattle, with no job in site. I had a nice four day trip across country with my dog Maggie. It was a long trip, but it was safe and uneventful, and of course beautiful.

So I took this pic of Ronnie Mac, cause he was perched on this big carved out tree stump in Iowa . Then of course I decided I could not go on another trip across America without taking a 30 minute detour to see the Corn Palace. It is pretty impressive. Everything is made of corn or corn husks or some part of corn.

Going across Wyoming I could see the beautiful montains of Yellowstone National Park in the distance.  Montana seemed to take forever. Crossed the continental divide when it was dark, would rather have not, since it was steep coming down the other side. I knew I was getting close to home as I crossed the Columbia River. I was beat, but it was wonderful to be back in the Seattle area, spending time with my family.