April 26, 2023: Let's see how well I recount the events
of an almost two-year-old
vacation
excursion....:
Yes, it has taken me close to two years to finally get
around to recounting what was one of my best
vacations
I have ever taken. And full disclosure, at least for
The Wilds,
I had quite a few notes, and even some prose already written,
many, many, many months ago, some quite close to the events.
My Summer
Vacation
Get Away 2021 consisted of two
nights in a
yurt,
four nights in a cabin, three nights in a tent, two nights
in a hotel room, animals, pastures, lakes, waterways, forests,
hiking, fire pits, artwork ‐‐ all in thirteen days,
735 miles, at a total of $2300. It was time and money well
spent.
It started on Monday, June 28, my day of departure. The car
was all packed: luggage, cooler of food stores, camping
gear, firewood, my laptop,
and some musical instruments and equipment
(my Giannini
acoustic bass, my Oxygen 61 Keyboard,
my Tascam eight-track recorder,
and associated items such as a microphone, sound cables, etc.).
It looked for a while like I might have had to launch toward
my first destination in eastern Ohio later than I'd had planned.
The 10-inch, portable, battery-operated fan that I ordered
the week before I embarked was delivered down-to-the-wire
at pretty close to the last moment ‐‐ literally
in the eleventh hour. It was suppose to arrive the Saturday
before the trip, but, of course, that was only an estimate.
That Monday, day one of the vacation, my checkin time at
The Wilds
was 3:00 p.m., so I needed to leave by late morning, 12:30 at
the latest. I wanted to give myself a buffer so I made a
decision: if the UPS person didn't show by 11:30, I'd head
off to Menards
and pick up a portable fan there. They don't have exactly
what I want, but it would have worked. Sometime after 11:00
a.m., UPS came because at 11:00 I had nothing, but just shy of
11:30 I checked and there it was on my doorstep. So, by noon,
I was on I-70 East, heading the two hours and thirty-plus
minutes to Cumberland Ohio and
The Wilds.
