Getting Ready To Travel

All this week we are at home on the island working each day to get ready for a big upcoming trip.  By the middle of August it is getting hot on Ocracoke and, besides that, we are in hurricane season (though there have been no storms in the Atlantic so far this year).  It is a good time to travel and then come back later in the fall when things cool down and the weather stabilizes.

Our Little Home on the Island

On Friday we will leave on a nine week trip across the United States.  We will be going to seventeen states and visiting fifteen National Parks along the way.  We will also be working some along the way.  Work includes the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, school visits in Utah, the Cave Run Storytelling Festival, Teller in Residence at the International Storytelling Center, the National Storytelling Festival, and a residency as Event Leader at The Swag, the Great Country Inn of the Smokies.

We will also be coming by New Orleans for the wedding of our son, Jonathan and his fiancé, Karan.

For the whole trip we will be traveling in our Airstream camper trailer.

The Space Station Pulled by our Gray Car.

We call our Airstream The Space Station, because when you are in there you are in a world of your own.  The good thing is that our regular car pulls it so we always have the car with us for touring around along the way.  The camper is 23 feet long and it has all that we need.

The Blogging plan is to make a report on most days about where we are and what we are seeing there.  You may also get to meet some of the people we are with along the way.

We hope this will be fun for everyone!