This American Summer

We’re back in the wild part of the country - big skies, broad horizons, where most people know hard work and live simple, friendly, good lives. It was really nice to spend two days back there in Sauk Centre, resting, enjoying ourselves. I remember what Kym and Nathaniel in Tallahassee said - they used to joke that their van was their guru, and would break down when it wanted them to learn a lesson. I don’t know if MUO was teaching us a lesson, but it definitely broke through the mid-trip slump I was feeling - I was past the initial excitement and adrenaline at the novelty of the adventure, and I was forgetting how to have fun. Yesterday and today, we were forced to slow down, to stop feeling rushed and frenetically driving from one place to another; it was a forced reminder on how to revel in the quiet beauty of a place and enjoy the moments of newness we were experience at every point on this trip.

Thank you, MUO, for your leaky heat converter.