It's hard for me to say what has the been the best part of the infancy phase of my road trip: There was the first afternoon where I got on my Dahon (a conversation magnet), met some local youth and jumped 20 feet into a pool beside a waterfall; then that evening I didn't understand the bulletin board to direct me to a non-reserved campsite and scored a lake side spot (needing to be reserved 1 year in advance) lined with blueberry bushes. The people made reservations and didn't show up. Maybe it was passing a pack of 15 Lancaster, PA Amish girls dressed up traditionally speaking Pennsylvania Dutch while seeing 21 waterfalls on a 7.3 mile loop hike in Ricketts Glenn State Park. I think my personal favorite is walking into a Holiday Inn Express continental breakfast this morning at 7:30 a.m. Eat bacon, eggs, biscuits, cereal, yogurt, coffee, milk and bananas and walk back into my car and leave. Some may think me a scum bag for doing and admitting a juvenile move such as this but I feel it pretty genius. The one way to save serious money on this trip is in the food category and I'm going to exploit every resource I have. Today is one of my longer drives - about 8 hours 400+ miles to Great Sand Dunes National Lakeshore. Nearing 900 miles total. Car is running great, but the driver's window has come off track, cannot go down far and gets stuck often between up and down - if it makes it another month before totally falling threw the door and smashing consider a miracle has been performed. I'm excited to explore Northern Michigan and the peninsulas - I've never been up there and its driving my energy right now. Only good news to report!
-Matt
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