June 25

So, my tech inclined friends tell me that the blog I posted yesterday with the underlining I couldn't get rid of is some connection to Fox News called a "hyperlink.". Now, most days I cruise the headlines on ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, but I never blog while doing it.  I don't "multitask."  Multitasking just means you do more than one thing badly at a time.  So how did this hyperlink thing happen?  God's will?  Historically, that has always been a favored explanation.  Or, as science is the new God, how about "quantum hyperlinking?"  Either choice superficially explains it away, and isn't that usually the goal?  Any explanation so long as it's an explanation.  Say!  Maybe it was swamp gas!

Did 300 miles today and it was easier than the 200 yesterday because I started at 7 a.m. when it was just 64 degrees.  Thoroughly pleasant, though I was pleased when it warmed to 68 as I wasn't wearing leathers.

It has been long and long since I've been in the east in late spring and early summer.  One forgets how lush it is, especially this very wet year.  A transplanted Idahoan can only marvel at how green is this part of the world.  And three dimensional green, too.  Not just green grass, but mile after mile of deciduous forest rising high.

Another thing about the east is how low it is.  Went over a hill at the crest of which was a sign giving the elevation - 2110 feet.  In Idaho this is known technically as a "depression."  Later, I actually saw a sign for a ski hill.  Sad, but true.  I guess you work with what you've got.  In Idaho, we work with little water.  Here, they work with little altitude.

I arrived at Russ and Ann's house.  More about them tomorrow.  For now, I will just post this short blog and promise pictures to come.