It’s 4:00 AM and today we leave for our trip! I have decided that what I am going to do is write draft blog posts and publish them all when I get home. I thought I’d have trouble sleeping last night, but actually, I slept quite well, I just woke earlier than usual and I am now fizzing with excitement, and there’s no way I’d be able to get back to sleep. Today at seven we’ll head out from Madison Wisconsin and tonight we’ll be in Bismarck, North Dakota: quite a haul! About a 10 hour drive. Now those of you who know me know I DON’T drive… so it’s all on Nathan. I have Aspercreme and will give him lots of massages. Tomorrow we drive to Cody, Wyoming and we will be there for three nights, and days checking out Yellowstone. The third leg takes us to Moscow: Idaho, that is, then the last leg takes us to Olympic National Park where we’ll be for a week. We’re doing the more southern route home.