UMTravels

How nice to be able to sleep in. I must admit that even for me that prison schedule was grueling — out of the place before 8, drive a couple of hours, chat and play games a couple of hours, drives 2-5 more hours. Hopefully he’ll get out on parole so that I don’t need [...]

Woke up this morning to Mountain Goats on the hillside outside the hotel.   �   Today is the long day of driving, punctuated by prison. Out of the hotel at 8am for the 2 hour drive to Shelby to visit Steve. 45 minute stop for breakfast and blogging in Cut Bank (and fixing the [...]

Last year I was here with Wonderful — who definately ISN’T a morning person. I’m not either, but at least I can do it when needed. Today, it is needed. The earlier I get out of here, the earlier I get to prison, and the earlier I get to the Many Glacier Lodge. It’s 3 [...]

Out of the house a little before 9am so I can kick the keys back in and get an envelope for Steve’s money order and lodge a complaint about children running wild upstairs from 7am to midnight. Next stop is the Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier. Need to kick in $80 to get this year’s [...]

After a banana with my coffee — starting to become a routine — made breakfast a little later, eggs sunny side up with toast. Thinking that today’s adventure will be to Harrison, which looks like it is south of here according to Streets and Trips. Not sure what’s there, and I have enough food for [...]

Up a little before 8 and out of the house by 9 — next stop Harrison, Idaho. A breezy trip east. Had the top down for a couple of hours wearing the sheep hat — got lots of thumbs up. The most amusing thing I saw was a large Marathon size RV broken down — [...]

Today is all about cleaning, prepping, and packing. MoonSong arrives at the standard 9am to touch up paint and then move onto the drywall in the garage — that he can finish while I’m on holiday. In the meantime I have the house to clean for dinner guests (including MoonSong). Mitch, Kevin, and the slave [...]

FINALLY got the final images processed for SOB and saved to a DVD and in the mail to Dan and Lisa. Almost 5 gigs of files. 463 t-shirt images and 1 document explaining the appropriateness of BlackAmericanna images. Yikes — guess I pumped more through than I thought. Also sent off the billing information for [...]

Spent the morning working on Shirts of Bamboo images. Did manage to snag another night in Coeurdalene — that would be Wednesday night. That will make a nice start to the long weekend. Hopefully there will be cell/evdo service in Harrison (just outside Coeurdalene) — I’d hate to have to stop blogging (or working) just [...]

Getting closer to getting the SOB project done. I’ve scanned through over 10,000 images in the Library of Congress and downloaded the ones I thought would be good for t-shirts. Got to love public domain images. Of course I also reworked the Man Scouts images to add to the collection as well. At this point [...]

This many hours at the computer doing graphics work is painful (ly paying the mortgage so quit your bitching and send out the invoice.) Well — a couple of things have happened… finished wiring the 220 for the stove in the garage (and cooked sausages in a frying pan for dinner).� More organization. So that [...]