We’re out of service but the kids wanted river time before we leave this beautiful campsite. It’s a bit too chilly to go into the river, but the kids love throwing rocks in and especially off the bridge.
It feels amazing being back in our bus and life, even if things fall apart on occasion. Like the table in the trailer. The lady who sold it to us had said that she had bolted the table to the top hinge thing, but I fail to see how the bolted part would be connected to the table by any means, so I guess I’m gonna amend that.
The other thing falling apart is the implant stud in my mouth. Once we’re in service I’ll have to contact the oral surgeon and see what he has to say. I guess it’s good I’ve been doing a slow roll on this route as it would be harder and way less fun to have to go back once we’d had left the state.
I am trying to get south before the summer is out as I’m feeling awfully paranoid about bed bugs having survived. Not because I’d seen any in my domain, but because my mom casually mentioned having seen one on her sheets and my Ptsd flared and I started crying and had an emergency session with my therapist and nightmares and have felt bugs in my bed and clothes since she said something. Either my eczema flared from the stress or the bugs are real and biting me, so instead of tearing it all apart again I need to hit the southern summer sun and tarp and heat until I’m satisfied.
I did waste my time going to Missoula for my friends birthday and missed a kids birthday in the process. I didn’t even respond to Molly after she invited me and I feel stupid about it. All because I had some romantic interest and now I feel like it won’t work out anyway. Like he doesn’t like me enough… Or is too emotionally distant.
I neglected real people that care about me to be subjected to someone who doesn’t feel the need to communicate with me. That’s fluffing embarrassing. Sounds about like my life. We’ll see.
Driving up to Arlee, we wandered around the Garden of a thousand Buddha’s. it was beautiful to explore and soak up some nature and love.
We did the Deer Lodge museum tour yesterday, walking through the Old Prison and Auto Museum, then Yesterday’s playthings, and Cottonwood city. We did a lunch break before going into the frontier museum which also had a World War II exibit. From there we went to the art Gallery and harrassed Mrs. Paull past closing time. The kids received pretty painted rocks as gifts and I purchased a Cardinal with nest decoration. It was a beautiful day. Galixy had some trouble listening and behaving, but I guess that’s typical behavior for an almost 5 year old in a large museum. Atreyu behaved exemplary.
In the evening we drove for a little over an hour to get off the I90 and onto a campsite along the I15. We did a little walk by the river and then made homemade pizza for dinner, read some books, listened to our audiobook and went to sleep.
This morning Atreyu wanted to listen to more audiobook and we lazied about a little. I did the pile of dishes left from the last few days and the kids played outside and on the rivers edge.
My phone will be dying soon so I’ll quickly pick out some pictures to add to this post and leave the rest of the work for a time when the phone is charged and we’re in a spot with service.
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