The dealer said we could tow the Puffin with this? Are you kidding us? Yeah, so the new Auk II didn't make it out of the Salt Lake City area. More issues. But the dealer was reassuring, telling us the savings on diesel and DEF, no need for new tires or tune ups... They run on all kinds of vegetation, sometimes meat and fish. Low maintenance costs and a top speed of 40 MPH for short bursts, we'd already become accustomed to that, so what's the problem? File this sarcasm

As I write this well past overdue entry, the cobwebs of DST are playing tricks on the Nardozzi's. The last time I published was early August and we had ventured into Canada. We exited our neighbor to the north at the end of July, so yeah, blame DST. Busy having too much fun, or simply lazy... Since then, we'd visited Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, Oregon and now we're camped at the foot of Mount Shasta,

No one name Lou or Bud were involved. We left Boothbay Harbor and headed towards Quebec, Canada. We stopped for a couple of days in...