NO, that was a gift to you! No returning gifts!

Thanks. I'll keep it cause you neve know when I might find a computer to put it in.

Another cool morning of 71 degrees. It is gonna get kinda hot today but it is July in Oklahoma so that is normal.

One one Parade trip my phone charging cable died, and my wife's phone at the time had a different connector. It was traumatic to have a phone at 2% charge. I finally had a chance to stop at a gas station and get a phone charging cord. I was double checking my computer bag for charging cables and I found five of them, so I should be OK this year. Evidently I kept putting in more over the years on different trips. Always good to be prepared.

Morning all. its 55 here this am.

We finally had a little rain yesterday. 62* this morning instead of the upper 70s.

no Rain here for today at least.

Golly, I "get" to mow the yard once again. For a change the dew is not epic levels so I can get out there before it gets too hot. It is already 76 degrees. Gonna be a fun time.

We are mostly packed, and I will get the suit cases packed after I mow. Then start stuffing all the nooks and corners. It is a 11.5 hour drive according to the map software. Of course with my wife along, lunch will have to be at a regular restaurant, and rest stops have to have her approval.

We learned long ago than when going through St. Louis to NOT go the shortest route, but to go a few extra miles and go on the southern side bypass interstate. It is low traffic, and easy. Downtown St. Louis sucks big time and on the first time through a 18 wheeler decided he needed my lane to make his exit and he moved over. I had right of way, but I would have been dead right, so I changed lanes and ended up in a state I did want to go to. I had to pull a u-turn and try a second time to go the right way. The truck could clearly see me, he chose to let me dodge out of the way.

We will be in St Louis for a day next week after we pick up our daughter.

This year was one of the longest ever between having to mow. 5 weeks in the summer time when twice a week isn't abnormal.

It did rain some last night again.

morning all. Hope your drive is a safe one Glen.

Thanks, that is the plan!

Just in caase you did not know, grass left to grow for two weeks because of constant rain grows a LOT more than the same yard in just 5 days of sunshine, and the sprinkler running every three days. There was not much to mow, but it looks better, and will last until I return.

One of my buddies, I meet at Parade every year lives in Anchorage, Alaska. Mike has a 1985 911 and he drives down every year. Even all the way to Boca Raton, FL. He has been posting part of the journey on Facebook.

He is a gregarious and funny guy, and it is hard to have a conversation with him because virtually everyone knows him and stops to say hello. He wins the long distance award every year and get a free set of Michelin tires. One of the other members drives down in a Boxster, but he lives 3 blocks south of Mike, and misses the distance award by three blocks.

Sounds like fun. Good thing things have opened up a bit or he would miss this one due to having to drive thru Canada.

Evidently he only had 24 hours to clear the Yukon territories to be considered just passing trough. If he stayed too long then he is a tourist, and has quarantine and that mess. It will be interesting to hear bout the trip this year.

I have a couple friends that ride motorcycles from WI to AK most years. The last couple have been missed though.

It is 2,000 plus miles down the Alcan highway from Alaska back to the USA. He has been delayed on past trips when the border guard was late. They evidently do close the border at night in the remote areas.

He mentioned that stopping in some remote places is scary. He has driven for miles and not seen any other humans. And the bears have learned that cars are a nice canned human meal. Just go rip the door off and eat the human. He can't carry a gun into Canada and many US states get rather huffy about it as well.

He prefers to go in a group of two or more cars as a backup plan. Safety in numbers.

yeah my kids will have to make that trip this fall. Anchorage to Seattle

Welp the guns are all locked in the safe. If we get a home invasion tonight we are screwed. Pretty low odds. I have the tool box all locked up. For whatever reason, I feel like locking it when we leave town. I never do any other time.

There is still room in the trunk, so we must be forgetting something. ;)

The lady staying in our house to take care of the dog, fish, and plants has set of instructions only 4 pages long, single spaced. My wife is through. The lady is a real dog lover and the dogs took to her right away. She is a retired detective from the local police.

My wife checked at a local vets office and they charge 50 bucks per day, per dog. Ouch. Glad we found this lady from a friend that has used her.

Stijn!!
 

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Mmmm. Guinness done right. Burp.

We arrived with no issues. Checked in, went for pizza, got back to the over the top hotel.

A professional chick singer is singing, perfect beer, fabulous place. Bumped into so old friends. Love is good.

^That looks great!

Folks, I'm so tired of being tracked by the internet and getting force fed ads for everything I've searched for.

So... I searched for "Women's Lingerie." Now my Newsfeed is filled with hot women in underwear.

Small victories. Life is better.

That works with bikini model searches as well! Or so I am told.

Looking at the menu for room service I see I can order a bowl of cereal with a choice of milk type for only 7 bucks plus tip. Eggs Benedict is just $18. We are not ordering!

The also have a hamburger for just 21 bucks. They add in a 15% gratuity on top of that.

A bottle of Dom Perignon is just $370.00 and not goona be ordered.