Road Trip!

After Vicki's rejoining me, we spent a few days moving into and setting up our new temporary quarters, a small one-bedroom "cottage" in Menlo Park, just a few blocks from Rebecca, Jeremy, and Penelope. But then it was time for a road trip, to Missoula, via Sandpoint, for the big occasion of the year...

Laden with a cargo of bar stools and library card catalog

furniture (true; revealing), and a few personal items and

souvenirs from Europe, we drove the Saturn up through

California and across the middle of Oregon, finally hitting I90

in WA and then 95 in Idaho to Sandpoint; 19 hours of driving;

and then, a day later, 200 and I90 to Missoula; that's

Mt. Shasta above, in northern-most CA; all the volcanoes

were similarly snow-draped, even in early August