Getting organized for a trip of this length is keeping me up at night. Lists, Lists, Lists. They are everywhere. Medications, we are all on so many. Mail, how to keep it going to the right places and bills how to get them paid. Who will look out for the house, for the yard, for our life here at home, while we are exploring?

It is a puzzle, but we are all working out the pieces and hopefully in seven weeks when we form up the caravan and drive off into the sunrise, we will have a clear and definite plan to address all of the aforementioned problems.

Then there is the budget. They always say if you have to worry about gasoline prices, you shouldn't buy an RV, but when we bought ours, a gallon wasn't pushing $3.50 a gallon. Now it is a concern. Towing a car we will get only 8 miles to the gallon and I would say filling up that 75 gallon tank daily is going to cause everyone some second thoughts.

So we have decided to get to a central destination, unhook, and take our little tow cars exploring, therefore minimizing the gas we need. We have several stays of seven days and will try to see as much of the area as possible in each of these regions.

Reading and researching, we realize there is more to see and explore than any human could in one short trip. It would take a lifetime to do the West justice and absorb all the beauty and mystery of this awesome region, but we will go as much as we can go and do as much as we can do.

Seventy years of living has tought me to live in the moment and enjoy each day to the fullest and hopefully we will all stay healthy and be able to mazimize our time on this trip of a lifetime. How fortunate we all are that God has given us this wonderful opportunity.

Got to go and make more lists.