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Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - Sayre PA

Dawn Flight, Canada Geese, Hoosic Reservoir, Cheshire MA, September 7, 2010
Dawn Flight, Canada Geese, Hoosic Reservoir, Cheshire MA, September 7, 2010

Ok, let's get this show on the road

It's been an interesting summer and a warm fall in Red Rock but winter looms ahead and it's time to get this ol' RV to a warmer spot on the globe.

The plan was to get my affairs in order and start my fall migration earlier this year. A mid October departure seemed about right. November starts to get a bit chilly in Red Rock and I thought I might skip a bit of that nonsense this year. And I would have but things didn't go quite to plan and, well, here it is mid November again. Ah well, off we go...

Guess I'll wander southward until the spirit sends me west. I have no specific goals in mind for this winter much beyond spending time in New Mexico messing with my photography and leatherworking interests that got rather neglected this summer.

Night camp

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sayre PA

Walmart Store #2208, 1887 Elmira St, Sayre, PA 18840 - (570) 888-9791

Please note that the entrance access to this Walmart is tight - I wouldn't recommend entering with anything much larger than a Class C.

Hobnobbing with Brigham Young

The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.

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