Back on Michigan soil now, and the weather’s already much better than Virginia. I’m less excited about sleeping in the van tonight than I have been, since the whole time at Tom’s house I slept in this incredibly awesome bed. The mattresses are hand-made to respond to the body’s actions much like those foam beds. The great thing about these hand-made beds is that they are constructed out of 100% recycled materials. The down side is that there’s a six month waiting period for the mattresses. Oh and they’re a bit on the expensive side too.
You’ll all be happy to know we had no jokesters on our return flight. We also didn’t have any private workers on the plane, other than the pilot and his assistant (I learned there’s a whole hierarchy of positions before one becomes a co-pilot on these planes – our guy made it clear he was just an ‘assistant.’ I guess that means if our plane was falling out of the sky he would be qualified enough to ‘assist’ the pilot ininforming us that we’re about to crash.
Absolutely nothing spectacular happened over the past two days – no new breadcrumbs on Artie’s trail, no contact information or old address or picture or anything. Tom did say there were some more boxes he has put in storage and he invited me back out to look through them when he brings them home. Of course this time he will expect me to drive, so who knows – maybe I’ll head that way in my travels.
Enough about all of that, tonight I just want to think about finding a nice quiet spot to sleep beneath the stars. Ever since the trip began I’ve wanted to sleep on the van’s roof, and tonight’s the night. Let’s all pray I don’t rock in my sleep or sleep walk – it wouldn’t be fun waking up in the dirt.
FYI – I’m planning to visit the world’s greatest family (uh, that’s mine in case you didn’t get it – duh!) in a couple weeks, so I need to plan a good 2-3 week round trip destination. Any ideas?
peace.
