Thursday, May 3, 2007

back home for a spell


Three weeks of road trippin. Can you believe we're still not sick of it? This mighty little truck took us 4,000 miles around the country without making a fuss. Tom had this truck when I met him in Montana six years ago. We've driven it around the country four or five times together since, it gets 30 miles per gallon, it's dirty and worn and smells a little funky. We had to sell it right when we got back -I almost cried.

After three weeks of fun and friends on the road, it was time to get back to C'ville to take care of business and enjoy the company of our friends and family here. It's not easy saying goodbye to so many people we love, but we're making the best of our last few days here.

Playing with friends back home:

Jessie and Willie

Margaret and Sunny


Sunny, Nathan, and Willie


Sister and brother Leah and Joe have taken us into their house for the week, many thanks and much love to them for being so rad. Our days have been spent doing a lot of tedious chores you've got to do when you're about to be out of touch for two years with no phone or forwarding address. In the evenings we've been playing with friends and hitting up all our favorite spots in town. Turns out our favorite spot is not in town. It's on the river at our friends Jay and Erika's farm where we used to live. Where we hosted the first annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Bathing Suit Optional Swim this year. Where we swim and fish and party and play. Where Tom proposed to me a few years back. Where life is good. So we go there lots.


Tom and Gus on the way to the river.




Joe, Leah, and Tom. Dinner by the river.



Tom, Lio, and Joe. Philosophizing and stuff.

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