Today was eventful and uneventful all at the same time. We got up and left Mankato early, (around 5) and drove through western Minnesota and North Dakota. The real fun started somewhere around central North Dakota when the car top box suddenly flung itself open and tossed two bags and two jackets into the road (honestly, I’m surprised more didn’t come flying out). Andy ran back and picked up everything that had fallen out and I climbed up on the car to fix the box. It seems to be working fine now, but there is a crack in it along the side. No major damage, but I’m really glad that REI has such a great return policy. I don’t care what they say, car boxes should not open by themselves.
Other than that we got to Great Falls without incident and went out for some awesome greek food before settling in at the hotel for the night. As I was falling asleep I was thinking about how this would be the first of a series of new places that I would be sleeping in the next 6 months. I’ve taken a new job, in a new state, and having to start a life that is very different from what I have been doing for the last two years. It felt like my heart was breaking to have to say good bye to so many people who have become so dear to me over the last two years, and knowing that some of them I might not see again for a very long time. I guess the best way to put it is that I love to go, but I hate to leave.
I’m so excited for tomorrow though, driving up through Banff to Jasper on the Icefields Parkway is beyond beautiful. Rumor has it that there has been lots of snow still falling in the mountains up here, so we should have some great views of the snow capped Canadian Rockies.
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