I've Got An Itch...

...and I think it may need scratching in the form of a road trip. I have a couple of appointments I need to keep this week and at the middle of next week. After those, I'll be free through the first couple of days in November. If I do travel, I'd like to be back to my place so I can vote on November 4th.

 

Trips that my little gray cells have been mulling over are: Le Claire, Iowa to stop by Antique Archaeology; Carlsbad, New Mexico to visit Carlsbad Caverns; Dodge City, Kansas just to check out an old Wild West hot spot; Big Bend National Park, Texas to check it out; Galveston, Texas to do a bit of salt water fishing (I miss that from when I lived in NY, did not do it often but went now and then and it was always fun if I caught anything, sometimes it was fun even when I did not catch even one fish); Reelfoot lake State Park in Tennessee to do some fishing. 

 

Being a fan of American Pickers, I'd love to visit Antique Archaeology in Le Claire, Iowa to check out their shop and maybe pick up something neat. The thing about that trip though is that I just checked what inventory they show, on their website, as being in stock. It's not much; so, I sent them an email asking if that is it or if they have more and can send me a list of their complete inventory. I'd rather not drive 11 hours only to find out that what little stock they show on their website is all they have available. Second choice would probably be either Big Bend (never been there before) or Carlsbad Caverns (been there twice before and loved it) or a trip to both an maybe also to Silver City, New Mexico. 

 

Of course, if I do take a road trip, I may just hop in my car with Skye, my mongrel, and head in whatever direction my little gray cells decide to point my nose or in whatever direction Skye decide to point her snout. I made several trips like that in my younger years, but without a pooch, way back some 45 to 50 years ago - some by bus but most in my cars (got my first car in Las Vegas in the summer of 1977 as best I recall). Those follow my nose trips were always interesting and fun. Of course, I also made plenty of road trips with preplanned destinations. I'd rather not drive too far on any trips nowadays; driving is not quite as much fun for me as it used to be but I still enjoy it if the trips are not too long. Longer trips, like my son's and my trip to Deadwood, South Dakota this past spring are not out of the question of to where I might drive drive, but I prefer having someone else with me to share the driving when I need to drive more than what I can do per about eight hours drive time a day and six hours would be better when I am the only driver. 

 

I am not yet certain that my itch will last long enough to actually get me started on a trip; heck I have been hoping to go on a solo trip for a couple of, or a few, years now but I keep putting it off.That has been because I am THE Great Procrastinator. I am guessing the itch will last and spur me onto a small journey though because I am pretty much bored to tears. Where I live is certainly not a very interesting area. I only live in this pimple on the backside of Arkansas because there is no state income tax and because I am close enough to where my son lives to visit him and his girlfriend fairly often but still far enough away from them not to be a constant pain in their arses.

 

As I already said, I would not be able to leave before about eight days from now due to appointments I need to keep but after that I am free until very early November. If I can find someone to pick up my mail while I am gone, I may go on a bit of an extended trip; if not then for a week at most. Time will tell.

 

All the best,

Glenn B