Enga mellom fjella

Just after midnight...

...EDT. Only 10 in the evening here in Montana. Not sunny though... but days are getting longer.

Insane me:

Definitely coming down to the wire. Only 17 more days. Which is plenty of time!

That's iff (if and only if) I get my rear in gear.

SD cards are on sale at Best Buy and I got a notice from REI. Time to do some shopping.

Time to get my hair cut too; I trimmed my beard. Might get hair cut a tad short as I'd rather not fuss with it in Europe. On the other hand April is not a warm month and May is barely better.

Very nice day today, the 27th. Wore a peachy color short sleeve zippered shirt. (It was cheap and looks good on me.) Even went across the street to get coffee without my coat on.

As Party noted the flowers are getting ready. I walked up Mt. Jumbo to the lower meadow yestereve and saw plenty of buttercups in bloom just below it. Also biscuitroot has begun to bloom. And some tiny pale flowers whose name escapes me...

What doesn't escape me is my insanity. I worry too much. At Socrates Club, I mentioned how in some ways I don't want to travel. Judy picked up on this and asked everyone around the table. No one wants to do more traveling. As one guy said ...his traveling days were over ...except to visit friends.

I think of Nada and Scarlett ...both my age... yes, it's important to keep moving, but it's not easy every day. I have friends here older than me who still backpack! Me? I'd rather stay in cheap hotels, like I do in Costa Rica. In most of Europe that means hostels or couch surfing.

But even if I stayed in fancy hotels with a chauffeur it's not the same as sleeping in one's own bed. I should ask Hillary about that next time I see her.

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