Dispatches from Montana

Ross Voorhees 

Clay

Maddie and Sebastian 

Alex 

Bobik

 Dispatches from the Road by Bill Poindexter

Diary of a novice Saloon keeper, and Adventure Cycling Association Polebridge, Montana days, 22 through 26 

June 18, 7 AM, 50° rain coming down steady. It’s been this way the last few days usually rains overnight and in the morning and a little less during the day or none. I’m feeling more at home here. About four days ago. Another rainy day. I was working in the bar by myself and it was cold enough for rainy enough to where all the customers stayed inside. It was a busy day. Had a lot of fun, met a young couple, both active army, she works in finance and accounting for the army something to do with counter terrorism, and he is a special forces Green Beret. They live in North Carolina and they’re actually getting ready to move to Brussels. Sebastian and Maddie and it was kind of fun and they came in for lunch and then came back later and after I got off my shift, they bought me a beer. We sat down for a couple hours and just talked about life. It was interesting to hear their perspective as military people on what’s going on in the world they seem to be hopeful about AI whereas I’m more skeptical and one of the things I really appreciate is they were outspoken and very optimistic for the future. And although we did not agree on everything, it was just fun to have a open conversation respectful. We gave each other hugs and they were on their way invited me to stay with them in Brussels when I get overseas so if I like that good people. I’ve been meeting a lot of good people. I thought I’d share some more with you. There’s a Doctor who works here. We call him Dr. Bill I don’t even know his last name but he lives here all year round. He has a active practice well one day a week in whitefish very kind man good soul kind blue eyes think he’s around 68. He comes in most days to get his two burger patties in drinks a couple of the claw drinks. Usually talking about working in his garden. And the other day he came in, and I just got off my shift and I was gonna have a beer and we sat outside together and chatted for quite a bit of time he also likes to talk about health and what we should eat and what we should eat. He’s also like me a open conspiracy theorist. He is very open minded, and very practical about some of the not so good things that are going on in the earth in human bodies from a nutritional standpoint. He’s written five books and it’s going to give me one of them his latest. I don’t have it yet, but I’ll share it when I get it. Will review after I read it. There were also two musicians the other day, Drew and Ben got to watch them on the stage here at the Saloon -

I got a video of them and I’ll post a picture of them and I’ll try to post that video at some point. Just give you a flavor for what it’s like to listen to music at the saloon - last night, Ross Voorhees was playing at the saloon, he’s a really good guy too. I’ve listen to him a few times it’s fun listening to a guy up there, with a guitar, harmonica, bells around ankle, singing is heart out. I’m supposed to go on a bike ride later day with Ross Vorhesses a superb local singer / songwriter , a guy named Tom and the owners of the yoga retreat up here Brooke and Clay, but still having issues with my bicycle. The left crank has fallen off now four times and finally put some Loctite on it the other day, and seems to be holding, but I’m a little leery about heading up to far into the mountains. I’m gonna try to hitch a ride to whitefish when I get my next long day off. And just replace the crank. But in the meantime, I’ll try to make it work up here so I can tell people people asked me. “Hey Bill, are you a bicycle mechanic”, And I just laugh and say only when I need to be and I need to be right now. 

Jennifer who is the new general manager has been here about four or five days now and she and I get along really well. She’s got a lot of experiencing managing restaurants and resorts and bars, and it’s nice to have somebody up here from a leader ship standpoint, as we’ve been kind of just flying by the seat of our pants a little bit if the leadership isn’t around. So I’m super excited about that and makes the job definitely more pleasant, and everybody seems to be less on edge, so I’m hoping that that continues to work out and hope it works out for the season. She’s a kind soul think we’re gonna be great friends as well. She has watched me work behind the bar when it was just me and has seen how I interact with people and she likes it a lot. She says people love me and that I’m good at what I do, so it’s nice to have that feedback from somebody who has a lot of experience in the industry. And I still have a lot to learn so I’m excited about learning it from her. Next week I’m gonna be taking a couple of shifts working as a prep cook in the kitchen, as well as a dishwasher. I don’t consider it a step down. I consider to step up because I want to learn the whole way things work in a restaurant so I’m pretty excited plus I really like everybody I work with especially their kitchen staff. They’re awesome. And I don’t mind taking orders from 20 year olds Who have been very kind to me. Also, I have four days on shift in the front of the house doing the bartending so that will be great hoping that the rain will start letting up and it seems like more people are coming up yesterday I had a good shift and, even though it’s kind of a rainy day most of the day, there were a lot of people that came in for lunch and drinks as it was Saturday and I seem to be handling myself well in terms of ordering food, preparing some foods and working behind the bar, making drinks that I’ve never made before And I’m getting faster every day doing it. Meeting A lot of really nice people and people going up into the local lakes, hiking, biking, rafting and then coming back and having more drinks for food. I’ve also made and created two new drinks for children and young adults one is a huckleberry soda, basically huckleberry juice, and soda water, instead of like a Roy Rogers/ Shirley Temple and the other is a huckleberry sun tea. There is also been some other cool things going on so the chef likes the way I illustrate the menu for the specials and one of the other bartenders. Alex has been having me illustrate letters for him. And he’s going to buy me a journal with clear pages versus just using looseleaf paper for my journaling and my illustrating. So I guess you can say I’m getting paid to be in Illustrator up here. I’ll post a picture of what kind of illustrations I do it’s pretty raw pretty basic. But they tell simple stories… But I generally do it when I send postcards to people and have been doing it often on for years. And I’m writing down a lot of potential stories that I plan to write about after this whole experience.

 My friend Bill Fordyce is now at the area where he’s going to be a Fire Lookout in Salmon Idaho, that’s gonna be exciting. He should be there the whole summer and up until October I think. He showed me a video of how they get supplies and basically he’s up on a mountain ridge and a lookout tower that has four cables holding it steady and a helicopter will bring in about 1200 pounds of gear and then they have to haul the gear from the base of the tower to the top of the tower and to various storage places but it’s just him for the summer and there is like a cabin somewhere away from the tower that he can go to periodically and they there’s a like a group of them I think-three people that take turns being up in the tower. That’s the way I understand it. 

He also told me what the weathers like when he’s up in the fire look out that there’s four cables attached to the lookout tower and when the wind hits about 42 miles an hour, they start to hum and just curious about the what the frequency would be from the Metal cables humming from the wind. 

And I can get updates from Facebook from him in messenger and probably text you so I’ll keep you updated. I think you can also find him on Facebook if you’re interested and friend him Bill Fordyce. 

Well, the rain doesn’t seem to be letting up… So next week is supposed to start getting really busy so I’m excited about that developing relationships with locals and the people that work at the Mercantile and then people to come up on the weekends as well. When I was here in 2017, I met a few people and one was Jim Mount and Jim was kind enough to let me stay on his property in 2017 and multiple times and also in 2018 when I passed through when I was on the great divide mountain bike route. Jim is getting a hip replacement in Arizona this next week and he and his husband Austin and I had a beer the other night and they offered me one of their bicycles to use if mine wasn’t repairable for the short term so it’s nice to have that support here. So I’m gonna go check out that bicycle today and probably bring it to my cabin at some point. And it was kind of cool yesterday when I was working my shift a young couple came in and the woman said she had worked there before and it was Casey and Spencer who I met in 2017 and the story goes is when I rolled into Polebridge the first time I rode my bike from Missoula to Polebridge and I came into the saloon and ordered a double cheeseburger recommendation from the bar keeper, who was working at that time and sat outside and sat at a table with some hikers, and I told the server that I was on a tight budget and told her about the trip that I was on. That was Casey, and one of the guys that was eating at the table didn’t finish his macaroni and cheese and she asked him if he wanted to box it up and take it with him. He said no just throw it away and not want to waste food-I said wall take it, and they all kind of looked at me and it was great though I had it later on that night in my tent by the river. Fast forward a couple weeks to July 4, 2017 I came back in and Casey and Spencer bought me a cheeseburger and a beer and we had a nice conversation and that was the last time I actually saw them until yesterday. They’re actually one of the reasons why I’m up here because of their kindness. So their parents live somewhere in the area and they invited me to come up to the cabin and possibly even do a some rafting with them if I have the time. And Casey was so kind she gave me two big hugs. I seem to be getting a lot of hugs up here from people ..needed hugs..so good souls for sure. I still haven’t done laundry yet although I do laundry every day when I take a shower rinsing out clothes soaping them up so I guess it’s just as good as having a laundry machine but next time I go into town I’d like to take a load in. that’s one of the things of living in an OffGrid community. A laundry machine takes a lot of power as well as a dryer so I have my clothes hanging up on the edge of my cabin out of the rain. 

Well, I guess that’s it for now. Today is Sunday and I think I’m gonna hang out here and do some writing in my journal until the rain lets up a little bit more and I’ll probably head to the Mercantile have a bacon breakfast sandwich and check out that bicycle over at Jim‘s house and as long as my bikes holding up, go for a bike ride some more. Today’s my only off day for the next seven days, so got to take advantage of it

And I’ll leave you with us. So the forest floor right now is lush. Lots of growth coming up lots of wild flowers blooming and everywhere you go. You can smell the flowers and the smell of pine. You smell the pine when it’s wet sad, wet smell of pine and when it’s hot and the suns on it, you can smell the pine then too, it’s always wafting through the air as I roll down the street on my bicycle. We’re up in the mountains. It’s just wonderful to be around nature. Also, it’s great being off grid as well. Don’t know what it is about being off grid but I definitely have less aches and pains than I did when I was in the city, I think that’s from the electromagnetic frequencies… Look it up again for you conspiracy theory doubters. :-)

Peace and love from the road Bill Poindexter

Dispatches from the road day, 20

 Dispatches from the Road by Bill Poindexter

Well, I’ve been up here and remote, Montana and the town of Polebridge for 20 days now. I’m still learning the lay of the land-Learning about its inhabitants, it’s nature and wildlife, the weather, the the feuds locals have. How the government manages the national Park, national forest, and how local biologists with various institutes and fish and game try to control, the animal populations and sometimes mother nature- sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong. The nice thing about this area is that where I live is off the grid so it’s only run by generators and solar power but even that has its toxic effects, the generators are noisy and they still take fossil fuels. The solar power is better than it was years ago, but still somewhat inefficient . Someone told me yesterday that three locals who live next to each other died of bladder cancer. I’m not sure how many years ago so the water supply might be tainted with something? That’s just concerning. And even though we’re in a remote area it’s not without its politics everybody has an opinion. And so as with any place, I have to watch the lay of the land and be careful and navigate wisely and right now I am being very careful.. especially with my coworkers, bosses and local leaders. Being a man who is outspoken and not afraid to say the truth sometimes it’s really hard to keep my mouth shut. Every time I’ve moved to a community no matter how pristine or beautiful there’s always politics. Just the way of the world. But even with all the negativity and there’s a lot -there’s much much beauty like a hummingbird just came up to me red head with a brown body. I’ve seen bear I’ve seen mountain lion, lots of deer, grouse, bald eagle, various types of hawks I rode my biked up to red Meadow Lake yesterday, which is 5 miles to the north of Polebridge and then about another 12 or so miles up to red Meadow Lake and if you continue onto the road heading south you’ll get to whitefish I didn’t make it all the way up because of a pending storm and I just didn’t have the appropriate gear with me, so I turned around and rode home And I saw some tour divide riders that’s a race that goes from Banff Alberta, Canada all the way to antelope Wells, Mexico, or vice versa on what’s known as the great divide mountain bike route which I’ve done most of a couple of times. So that was fine and the Views are spectacular. On way home my crank came off my bike. I tried to fix it on the side of the road couldn’t get it to work, so luckily I was only a couple miles away from where my friend Bill Fordyce lives at a yoga retreat business. Bill was able to get it back on and we are we got it all tightened up, so I think I’m good to go. People often ask me with my bicycle touring adventures if I’m a good mechanic and I laughingly tell them that I become a mechanic when I’m on the road and that’s what happened in this case too. It was a lesson of humility for sure, and that I need to be more prepared when I go up into the mountains and not be lax With my preparedness and self reliance/ rescue skills.

 It’s about six in the morning on Monday and it’s clear skies. I’m sitting in front of my cabin. It’s probably around 50°. I’m hoping for more work soon! I only had three days shifts last week and this week I’m only on for three days -as it picks up, we’re gonna have more hours so then I’ll probably be wanting less hours but right now money is tight and I’m still paying for everything and Kansas City. So feeling a little stressed out just venting. Still feeling a little bit homesick. I miss my cats I miss my friends there. But making new friends here and getting to know lay of the land. The plan is now today, Monday, I’m gonna hitch a ride into town with one of the other bartenders, Alex, really nice guy, and open up a bank account. And would be nice to go to a grocery store. 

I am just sharing all this with you, humbly, in the early morning just a little self reflection I’ve been here almost 3 weeks -I like it. I like the people -I like nature -I like riding my bike up mountain roads and even just to work and smelling the pine trees, I like looking out my back window of my little cabin and looking at my backyard, which is basically the Flathead National Forest, I’m enjoying meeting people and hearing stories like John Carbone, from Maine, who’s been on the road for two years, traveling in an RV and has been to almost all the national parks east of the Mississippi and making his way west and I believe he’s going to be heading to Alaska shortly on his own spiritual journey. Here’s a man who’s overcome much diversity in his life close to my age. Trying to make peace with his demons, the same demons/issues many of us have in life. I encouraged him yesterday, and a long conversation on the front porch of the Merc, while Huckleberry bear claws to start writing down his tales from the road. John I hope you write them down if you’re reading this. I am hoping to stay here for the whole summer… But that being said, with all the internal politics here in the small hamlet, if I have enough money saved, I may just hit the road in late August. I also still want to do more videos and I’ve taken a few, and maybe even do a podcast still I’m working on it. The reason why I hesitate is because once you go on that route, you’re someone obligated and I kind of like my simple “dispatches” from the road. It suits me now- my writing: it’s been going well but not great, mostly just using all my senses, and again figuring out the lay of the land.

  

Thanks for reading this and all my words. If you like these words feel free to share. Sometimes I post on Facebook you can friend me there. I think you can go to blogspot on the website version and put your email in to get notifications of every time I post. if you’ve been a long time reader, and want to support my writing endeavor, you can find me on Venmo under Bill Poindexter and has a picture of me with the beard ring just reach out to me directly. And if you’re in the area of Polebridge, Montana, this summer feel free to reach out. If you’re a cyclist, I’ll try to help you find a place to stay for a night or two and maybe join me for a cup of coffee and a burger.

Peace and love from the road, Bill Poindexter 

Musings from the road

 Dispatches from the Road by Bill Poindexter

Diary of an adventure, Cyclist and Novice, Saloon keeper 

Day 13 (Death by Mosquito)

I’ve been here in remote, Montana for 13 days now. I have two consecutive days off today and yesterday yesterday I rode from Polebridge into glacier national park and rode the inside N. Fork Rd., to Apgar then Sprague campground. I haven’t toured since last summer and the road was pretty rough but it was gorgeous and beautiful and a lot of fun -took me about four hours to go with that thirtyish miles. With plenty of breaks and picture taking -

the thing about the inside N. Fork Rd. is that it’s the original Road that was built by the mining companies And the timber companies 

And to this day 10 miles of it remains closed to cars so it’s just you and the wilderness out there in that four hours -

I only saw two other people. They were doing it they were retired couple from Kalispell, who usually Road the Sun Road, but couldn’t find a place to park and they were aggravated by all the E bikes in the crowds. I told him I understand we found solitude together and it was beautiful. I was thinking about riding up last night to the road to the sun but by the time I got in the Apgar and then to the campground I just didn’t feel the need to go that direction, sleep did not come easy last night, that surprised me one of the negative things about being in a campground right next to a road as there’s traffic and people pull in looking for a spot to camp even though the campgrounds some stand out there and talk. That in itself makes me appreciative of Polebridge and where I live, very few people -

there are two other groups of cyclists in the campground at the hiker biker site and it’s kind of funny-They’re both from Chicago young couple and two single guys. One of the single guys was inspired by Ryan Van Duzer. Who’s a kind of a showman bikepacker who has a really good channel on YouTube. 

The campground I’m at is very simple. It’s right on Lake McDonald. I’m actually sitting on some steps overlooking the lake right now as the sun rises dictating this. So from the end of the inside N. Fork Rd. to here is another 10 to 12 miles I think so. Yesterday’s ride was from my cabin Roughly low 40ish miles maybe? I was thinking about riding up to the Logan Pass this morning but I’ve done it before and I’m kind of feeling the need to head back to Polebridge because I need to run into town first and do some business stuff, possibly even open up a bank account up here And I don’t want to feel rushed if I head up to the sun road chances are I won’t get back to camp till around noon and then I’m gonna feel rushed to get everything done. So I think I’m just gonna stay at the campground for part of the morning, and just enjoy the solitude and the rest Talked to the fellow campers which I like to do and then bike into Apgar and then West Glacier and resupply and then I’m going to ride the N. Fork Rd. back in to Polebridge that should only take me 3 hours.

So you might be asking the question, “Hey Bill, how’s everything going so far?”

Overall, it’s going well. Just taking one day at a time I like working at the northern lights saloon. I do have to say I am missing Kansas City in my three rescue cats. But they’re in good hands for the summer while I’m out on an adventure. So I’m a little homesick right now-but that’s always normal in the first 2 to 3 weeks on any of my trips. I’m really looking forward to exploring the area. I am in all summer. I’m hoping that the schedule becomes where I work four days a week and then off three days. It’s been warm up here and I think this next week it’s going to be in the low 80s which is really warm for this time of year.

The mosquitoes have become good friends -my cabin is full of them in the morning, and in the evening at dusk, doesn’t really matter if I keep the door closed or not, they tend to sneak in. Here at the campground, they were in good numbers as well. It’s because of the warm weather. I was walking around the loop of the campground and I came upon a man sitting on the rear of his car, looking distraught, drinking a cup of coffee and intelligent man I would say, looking like he had a two week beard like mine,fit, had a bicycle on his car rack. I would say it was most likely from somewhere in eastern Europe because of his accent, he just gave me a smile and with a twinkle in his eye, and said, “death by mosquito.”

To readers and friend: thanks Kaytee for the awesome big Agnes tent! I appreciate your kindness.

Dispatches from the road, diary of an adventure, cyclist, Novice saloon keeper

 Dispatches from the road 

By Bill Poindexter 

Diary of a novice saloon keeper and traveling cyclist 

Days 4-5-6 and beyond:)

The last three days have been good- on Friday I made my way into glacier national Park and up to Quartz campground area and saw lots of bear scat on the road so definitely know the Bears are around possibly even some wolf scat. I’m still trying to get my bearings on how to carry my bear spray carrying on my hand on the bike or even better. You need to carry it on your body on your sternum area or a sternum strap of a backpack is the best way to do it just in case you get separated from the bicycle. I’m gonna talk more about that later. Unfortunately, last year six bears were euthanized by fish and game up here for various reasons. I definitely don’t wanna be the cause of a bear being killed. So hence why it’s so important to carry bear spray. 

I’ve been meeting a lot of people up here and I’ve been having a lot of fun. I met two couples on. I think it was Friday did Lorna and Paul and Joyanna and Bob, from Flathead Lake, I believe. Really nice folks. They were one of the first customers when we opened on Friday. Definitely enjoyed the burgers and I was just working for a couple hours. I ended up getting a burger too by the way, the burgers are fantastic here I’m a burger snob, do you know when I was a kid my mom was a gourmet cook so we had everything freshly made. My dad insisted on it. Everything was from scratch and she had taken Julia Child’s cooking school at a local school so she had a good background gourmet cooking plus she was a really good cook anyway. So when we went to restaurants when I was a kid and I have six older sisters, so it was a big deal to go out whether we were on vacation or just in our hometown of Kansas City we would go to a really nice restaurant and everybody else would order really fancy food but because my mom was such a good cook the fancy food at the restaurant didn’t impress me at all but what did impressed me was a good burger specifically a cheeseburger so I kind of became a cheeseburger snob so to speak as a child I would get an ice cold Coke and order a cheeseburger with fries fries -another story not too many people make it fries. But I will say that the northern lights saloon has an excellent burger this year. 

So had a good ride on Friday into glacier came back and ended up having a couple of beers at the saloon with some locals so that was a lot of fun getting to meet everybody and getting to know everybody lotta people have different backgrounds different reasons for being here I met a guy name Clay he’s the one with the beard he and his wife have a Yoga Instructor studio about a mile up the street good people Austin’s been working in the area- He’s the redhead a guy for a few years and he works over at the Mercantile and runs the food truck. I think he does other things. Diana is a -well she does something for the EPA. I’m not sure but she works basically from the road. She’s the blonde woman in the picture and then there’s Tom who wears a kilt. Not sure what he does. Probably just odd jobs and I’ll talk more about other people later, well actually I did meet a couple from LA Gabriel and Jackie Gabriel, from Puerto Rico, is a professional documentary filmmaker just got done doing a film, dealing with agriculture and farming. I’m not sure of where it’s going to be, but I’ll write about it later, if opportunity arises met them up in or saw them up in Glacier when I met another guy name, Gary is a software engineer. He’s the guy on the bike. He lives down over by West Glacier and he is an entrepreneur to working on some kind of farming, start up for people to learn how to farm at home specifically with chickens I think. He has a YouTube channel called Flathead living so it’s Gary Paduana I think?

So that was all on Friday Saturday got up and made my way up to the Mercantile for some coffee set a little paperwork and some emails to catch up on. Then Bill Fordyce came up and we had a good chat. He told me a lot of stories about his life which hopefully I’m gonna get permission to share in the future. Very, very interesting man. He was telling me some stories about what happened to him in the 60s in the early 70s. So he even told me a story about meeting Rush Limbaugh when he was on a float trip in the Missouri Ozarks. Before Rush Limbaugh was famous. So it’s a good story I’ll share in the future then I went to the saloon, met with the owner, Heather, for a little while, and got through the rest of all my paperwork in just expectations of the job, which was good because I missed the original orientation day. Then I made my way back to camp. Ended up just taking a nap for a couple hours and then headed up in the Flathead national forest up hay creek (forest service Road 376)and spent-a couple hours biking in the rain made my way back down to Polebridge around 530 and her ended up going to have any coffee again and seeing Bill Fordyce and then I met Jill, who is a friend of Bill‘s and she’s a mule packer really cool background I’m gonna be writing writing about her. She basically works for the national Park service were the and forest service. I’m not sure which Bill met her because when he was at a lookout tower he she was the one who packed in all the food in during the summer with a group of horses -Sometimes she does it solo and sometimes she does it with somebody -tough woman. We then headed over to the northern lights saloon, and there was a good band last night and a lot of people just a lot of fun had a burger and a beer just hung out and had a good chat. Came home early to get some sleep because today -Sunday -

Day six is my first day of actually bartending -ever -so Ll I’m a little bit nervous it’s around 839 in the morning having coffee and going to head to the saloon in a little bit to get on their Wi-Fi because last night Aimee, my roommate in Kansas City, wasn’t able to get in Little kitten in last night -so I had dreams all about that last night and felt that I even visited the apartment in the middle of the night and I was walking through walls. I’m in an area where I am way north, only 20 miles from the Canadian border where the northern lights are visible at certain times of the year could be may be the magnetic ions in the atmosphere transported me back to Kansas City :-) so I didn’t sleep that well. C’est la vie. it’s all good though everything’s fine little kitten came home this morning. So I think that’s it for now. Peace and love from the road.

Addendum: well, today is June 1! Spent the last few days learning the ropes. These shifts have been good learn a lot the last two days the owner wasn’t there, so the pressure was off and I think I shined. Getting the hang of everything. And I think I’m really enjoying myself . Still have a lot to learn, but I have a whole summer to do that and a couple weeks to fine-tune everything before the crowds come. I’m enjoying working with everybody everybody’s super nice even one of the guys who lives next to me. Mike brought me a bike pump yesterday. It’s very kind. Had my first solo shift yesterday from start to finish and it went really well. It was raining when we first open so I was out putting up the signs and saw people kind of looking at the place and took a menu out and told people what kind of food we have so people came in for lunch. I really like bartending and hearing stories and telling stories. :-) I’ve been really just focused on the job and I’ve been having great conversations with my friend Bill. Also, a few other people mostly people who work at the Mercantile. It’s fun learning about everybody’s stories. 0h 2 nights ago on my commute home -it was probably around 630 and a couple miles away from my cabin on the main road, I saw a large animal, crossing the road -black bear -stop took some pictures. Hopefully I’ll be able to post them. It was just a black bear. Pictures aren’t that great, but it gives the general outline of the body. That was fine. Just another reminder of where we live. Also I’m including a map and this post of the national forest of where I’m at. That’s just behind my cabin in Flathead in National in Forest so you can get a better idea of where I am. I stopped at the restaurant that’s next to our camp, Home Ranch Bottoms last night. On my way home looked at the menu went took a shower and came back. I had a beer and fries don’t really have the extra cash to get a burger yet but it was just a nice way to end the night they have a nice deck out there and Flannery and Dan are super nice hosts. And I like the idea of having a bar and grill right next-door to her camp. It’s a good place for me to go and kind of just chill out on my own and do my evening writing, and reading. I am most likely have good chats with folks as well. OK well that’s the end of the addendum. I just wanted to get this post out. I’ll post again in a few days. I think I’m off on Friday and not sure my next day off.

If you like my writing, you can subscribe to an email notification on the blog. I’ll be posting throughout the summer dispatches, as well as videos and thinking about a podcast. Thank you for reading my words! More coming soon… last pictures are of my coworkers playing bocce outside her cabins