Day Before Leaving

Well... the trailer arrived.  Whew!  Close one.  Now we see how tight space really is and need to pick up a set of panniers for extra room.  We have quite a few snacks/water but energy is important.  The real culprits are the sleeping bags which are space hogs. 

Other thoughts during the planning....

It is so apparent how humans can miss the daily journey and then realize its too late.  We miss what is important in every day life having a mindset of "we will retire when we have enough", "we will vacation next year", "we will spend more time together this weekend", "when we have a bigger and better car, job etc we will be content".  In planning this trip, it is requiring serious conscious effort to not think of a destination where we will "do things".  Thinking of riding hard to get somewhere so we can explore is so common (and so wrong).  We force ourselves to remember that the entire trip IS the exploration.  Every small lakefront town, animal, plant, scenic view etc needs to be taken in like its the last chance to do so.  That is the vacation.  A stopping point is a place to sleep.  Ha.  Also, Google is our friend.  We can learn about anything we see at any point on the trip.  How cool is that!