In less than 48 hours we will be leaving for Brazil and we only have about 101 things we need to finish before we start our journey. Isn't that how it always goes? For us anyways! Since our last posting Heather spent a couple weeks in Spokane visiting with her parents and cleaning out some lingering belongings, while I have been here in Idaho Falls visiting my family. Make all the potato, in-bred, and trailer park jokes that you want....100% Idaho homegrown and proud of it! Fortunately, I only had to spend 2 weeks without Heather, and we met up in Boise, ID for a weekend Halloween Celebration with our buddy Alan, and a celebration it was. I drove over on the Friday before Halloween and Heather was planning on driving down from Spokane Saturday morning. ... read more

Hello Everyone- It has been some time since I have talked with most of you, so I thought that I would give you a little update about where I have been and what I have been up to. I have been unemployed for 4 weeks thus far and have been enjoying it very much, after moving that is. I was going to start my West Coast tour on Labor Day weekend, but I seriously thought about the traffic and instead went and spent the weekend at an undisclosed location…it was a great time! So I started on the drive after Labor Day weekend and went down the Oregon Coast. Along the way I made a stop at Cannon Beach to take some pictures of Haystack Rock, then I cruised to Tillamook Cheese Factory in just enough ... read more