5 nights, 5 states

His bags are packed...

He's ready to go...

He's standing here outside our door...

It's time to wake up and say goodbye...

We're leaving on I 90, don't know when we'll be back again....

So now it really begins:

Friday night, Washington

Saturday night, Idaho

Sunday night, Montana

Monday night, Wyoming

Tuesday - South Dakota where we will alight for the next week.

And so the adventure begins...

Well, Linda's adventure has begun.

The little house is buttoned up for the winter, so I've moved on, to Thunderbird between Monroe and Sultan.

Tom says his will start when he's behind the wheel and we're headed east. That happens next week.

In the meantime,

we have grandsons with birthdays,

Raine is 5...

Sam is 14...

and final preparations for the coach and car, planning with Ralph and Pam and I'm sure there are things we're forgetting. See, it's an adventure already.

Meanwhile, the gnome: aka, Mr. Tom Dulin - he's been busy communing with nature on the Skykomish River,

and making new friends.

Here he is with the Thunderbird Resorts' Eagles.

More next week...