It's true, kind of sureal. Julie and I have settled in Tucson, Arizona. In all the times we've toured around the country we assessed the area for more than the adventure in front of us. Would this be a good place to land? What are the neat things there to do? Are homes affordable? Access to medical, church, arts and entertainment/theater? How is the shopping, restaurants, distance to airports? Sure, a lot of stuff. We'd been places that were incredibly beautiful, if only natures...

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 under "Learning...

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, California. So...