Greetings  from somewhere over the western us. 

 Gabe and i are heading out to Reno tonight …in time to meet up with a group of frends who will load five tons of gear plus , water (3200 gallons)  beer, marshmellows, car batteries, duct tape, bicycles (32) and a thousand other necessities and no-so-necessities  into two 16 foot trucks and get them ready to drive to into the desert on Sunday. 

Were on our second fligth of three.. its been fun playing ‘spot the burner’ . We’ve been running into folks in the airports and the planes that you can just tell are heading the same place hat we are… id be hard pressed to say what it is.. they’re from all walks of life (what an interesting term)  old, young, shaggy, clean cut,. But i think its more abotu the way they’re smiling..

we are 🙂

More from the road tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

I’m alos ton vacation !. Actually two weeks of working  at home has felt like a vacation after all the travel. But tomorrow I really go off line. Gabe and I take off for burning man. festival in the Nevada dessert. Max will be there too !  I’m so excited to go. This is the 4th time I’ve gone, 2n tiem for Gabe.. and I think 6th time for max. THis is the firt time I’m not involved with a big projects. .. and the first time I’m goign for the whoel thing.. I’m so , so syched

here’s my 46 pound bag of stuff I’m taking .. its huge !

but thats because it has our homemade swamp cooler air conditioner inside 🙂 

we’ve got samstoens to give out as well

once agi .. burning man falls on our anniversary..so we went out for sushi tonight to celebrate.. 

I am so lucky to be married to this girl….. !

OK.. all for now.. more from the road tomorrow

nite all. nite  sam

-me

Today Diane and I drove my parents car to the Good News Garage and donated it. My folks have had this car since 2002 (I think).. and still only 92,000 miles. My mom very generously gave us the car whnen she moved to Minniapolis a few weeks ago. At the time, her mechanic felt it had several good years left in it. We were thinkign that Gabe could have used it. Unfortunatley when we took it to get checked out, our mechanic quickly spotted several expensive problems.. They would have cost more than the car is worth to fix them… 

So we decided to doante the car instead.. 

I have to admit it was a little emotional for me droppign the car off.. It’s the last car my dad ever drove.. I spent the tiem driving in to town thinkign of my folks driving aroudn in that cr.. it’s a good little car.. it drove well..and it even smelled like  my parents.. !

the process to donate the car was pretty easy.. I encourage anyone that has an older car to consider charities like the good news garage here in Burlington. This is the 3rd car we’ve donated.. and we still see one of them driving around from time to time. It’s a great way to make a difference for a family somewhere.. 

Later after work, DIane , Gabe, the dogs and I went up Libby’s Lookout. It was a beautiful night !  You could see the last rays of sun on Camels hump 

I love the layerign of maintains.. the bigger ones in the distance are the Adorondaks in NY.. 

So grateful  to live in a place like this..

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Tonight we had gentle yoga at the house.. Like always, Tuesday is soup night and we invite all the yoganaughts in for soup..  Tonight was fresh Gazpacho from the garden  .. my favorite !!!.. Diane doesn’t even like it.. but she makes it for me.. Now thats a wonderful mate !!

todays yoga was eclipse themed.. Diane had made an awesome playlist of eclipse music.. My favorite is Ring Around the Moon by Elephant Revival.. my favorite band at present