We've returned home! After a month on the road it's good to be home, but truly, the camper bed is just as comfortable as our bed here. :-) We both repeated several times that we could happily live in our 30 foot camper. It has all that we need. If the weather was more favorable here, we would definitely be living in our trailer. We love it and enjoy every part of camper living.
Below you see our co-driver never taking her eyes off of the road. She is very observant and doesn't sleep on the job. On our last day we had a drive of 11 1/2 hours and she never let us down with her dedication to her task. Especially when she saw cows! She always let us know very vocally if there was a cow in a field close by.
I did make about 22-24 dishcloths with scraps of "I Love This Cotton" while we were driving. I don't have a photo of all of them because some were given away to friends in Spokane.
Also three pair of socks were knitted during our month away. The first pair was Paton's Kroy in Brown Rose Marl. I did an 18 row k2, p2 cuff. The pattern in the rest was k6, p2 with an Eye of Partridge heel.
I think this is also Paton's Kroy, but I lost the label somewhere along the way and don't have the colorway name. Plain vanilla socks with the same cuff as above and Eye of Partridge heel. I tried very hard to get the stripes the same in this pair and I'm happy with the results.
The last pair was Patons Kroy in the Celestial Colors colorway and the pattern used was the same as the first pair. Socks are small and easy to carry when traveling and I enjoyed knitting all of these.
This was a photo I took outside our camper close to Custer, SD last week. I just thought it was a gorgeous cloud against the blue sky and evergreen trees. Oh, how I love the Black Hills of South Dakota. Dennis and I both agree it's our favorite place in the world. Since he has traveled most of the world with his work, that's saying something.
The Yellowstone River just outside of Livingston, Montana. So beautiful.
The sun rising over the hills as we drove through the Black Hills as we left for the drive home on the final day.
I have a few more photos to post of the trip, but not very many as we spent more time with friends and enjoying every moment.
I didn't have internet much of the time we were gone. I could get online with my phone but not my computer. I can only comment and post on my computer, so I have been out of contact with all of you for awhile. I hope if we ever are able to travel more like this, I'll be able to find a solution and be able to post and comment on your blogs.
I'll be able to visit your blogs again now that we're back. So many things have happened in our world in the past month. I'm almost glad that I was 'out of the loop' for awhile. I'm grateful that former President Trump's life was spared in the assasination attempt, but I pray daily for Mr. Compertore's family and the other victims of the shooting and their families. How terrible that something like this happened and that there are still no answers as to the lax security.
Our country definitely needs prayers at this time and through the election period. In fact, the entire world seems to be falling apart, especially in the middle east. And how did Russia and China get naval vessels within 80 miles of our coastline with no repercussions? Maybe I'm glad I didn't see much news for a month. We need a return to God and love for each other instead of hatred.
I've missed you all and will try to visit your blogs today or tomorrow. I have to go to the eye doctor in an hour so I don't know if I'll be able to see the computer later today but I'll try.
Take care and I'll be back soon.
Blessings and hugs,
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
