Breath deep

Interesting times...

• We had to have our old van towed into the shop. This could be it for Old Reliable.
  
• There's a pipe leaking in our basement. The plumber has been called.
• Lots of packages arrived:
  ...my new hat!
  ..."Meditations from the Breakdown Lane" by James Shapiro, 1980 solo transcontinental runner
  ...a new cell phone battery to replace my fading battery
• And I just finished up the daily maps: a document for each state (ranging from 12 pages for 138-mile Iowa to 26 pages for 374.5-mile Nebraska). Lots of hyperventilating as I put in the route details for the final day on the road.

Petoskey's Little Traverse Bay, June 2006 - Picture used on cover page for Michigan Daily Maps