Part One:  Looking East

Wednesday - 18 September 2002: Boise, Idaho - Welcome to Perimeter Tour 2002!We have packed Goldie to the max for this trip - it will be our longest trip to date, maybe three months or so. On October 11th, Lisa will have her last (she is a senior) "Parent's Weekend" at GW and we plan to be there for all the excitement. We have a few stops planned along the way, but after our visit in DC - we have NO PLANS and will be playing it by ear.
 
On this trip, we are joined by our fearless dawg, Snickers. He does not like traveling. He is 11. He just wants to be home - with me. So, on this trip we are compromising. Snickers gets to be with me and I get to be in my "other home". (Poor DT.) I have a long list of kennels and doggie daycares, so hopefully we will have an enjoyable trip with my "shadow".

We left The Manor and The Cats (Nancy is caring for our budgie Joe Paterno) with a house sitter and hit the road at 9 am, found our way to I-84, looked east and did not stop (much) until we were in Boise and a different time zone. We are at an old (run-down) RV park, with the redeeming feature of being on a 25-mile-long bike path along the Boise River. The satellite is up, the Mariners are on, we have had a nice dinner (huge salad and freshly baked home-made sourdough baguette), Snickers is sleeping and I am typing away.
 
Our trip is going to start with two hard days of driving, so maybe there will be no excitement here for a few days. Not to worry - this time I have TWO digital cameras and a drawer-full of guide books! We will certainly find a few things to amuse ourselves along the way to Washington, DC. And possibly a few things to amuse you too.

RV Park: Americana Kampground