Did you miss me? I haven’t blogged in a couple of weeks, we’ve been too busy enjoying our last few days on the mainland before we head home to St. Croix. It’s always an interesting transition, we love being in Wyoming so it’s sad to be leaving while we are also ready to get home after several months of being away. Highlights of our trip certainly include all the friends and family we got to see, and of course, the five weeks we spent camping remotely in the Sierra Madres. On top of that there are some other times we want to remember and celebrate, so we began a tradition last year of compiling a group of lists of our favorite mainland moments. I thought you’d enjoy seeing a few of the items on that list:
- Watching three of our five grands swimming and enjoying a lake on a picnic. And spending time with our daughters in Michigan.
- Having deer almost every evening and morning hanging out near our camp.
- Being surprised as a bull elk literally ran through our camp one evening.
- Having the opportunity to share my very most favorite place in the world (Haggarty Creek and Bridger Peak) with our bonus daughter Amanda.
- Having a fox explore our camp one morning.
- Visiting Zollman Zoo in Rochester, Minnesota and the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota
- Watching a meteor shower with dear friends Branda and Dave from the top of Battle Pass in the middle of the night.
- Listening to three of my very favorite pastors speak in the same day at our church’s 100th anniversary celebration.
- Sitting once again on the top of Bridger Peak.
- Spending time with two of the most stellar people on this planet, Liz and Greg.
- Seeing two huge bull moose as they lazed next to a creek – totally unconcerned by our presence or the clicks of our camera.
There are so many more precious memories of this summer. Mostly, we are humbled and thankful that God has enabled us to live this pipe dream of ours…living part of the year in our fifth wheel as gypsies and the rest of the time as pirates in the Caribbean.
