Motley, MN: Mom's place and HIATUS

Wow, it's Thursday, 26 June. I hitchhiked from Dilworth, MN to Motley yesterday, and arrived here a day early to surprise my mom and sisters. It worked! Anyway, I'm very tired from a month on the road, and I'm taking a break here. I'll probably stick around here for 2 weeks or so, then head down to my dad's for a week, and spend a few days in the Twin Cities as well before getting back on the road.

If you want to know when my feet hit the pavement again but don't want to check the blog every day to find out, shoot me an email. I will probably do some occasional updates and maybe tinker a little bit here at the blog, but I'll be mainly relaxing for the next 3 weeks or so, before continuing on.

Thanks for reading, and keep in touch!

Derek

I'm alive!

Hey everyone, I'm still hanging on. I just arrived in Grand Forks, North Dakota about 30 minutes ago after 3-1/2 whirlwind days of hitchhiking. As soon as I get a little sorely needed rest, I'll be posting as many updates as days I've missed.

Derek

Quick update

I just added 3 new posts, hope you enjoy reading them. I'm a few days behind and for that I apologize and offer only the excuse that it's slow typing on this little thumb keyboard.

I just spen two awesome nights in Kalispell with an outstanding CouchSurfing host and tonight I'm in Whitefish. Not sure about tomorrow. There'll be more updates just as fast as I can type 'em in, I promise!

Derek

3 June: Spokane

I just posted three updates in addition to this one. I've been writing them day by day, but I have to post them all at once when I have internet access. For those of you who know me well enough to be surprised at the simple typos and misspellings in my posts, please have a good chuckle at my expense; I am typing the bulk of these blogs on a thumb keyboard and it's very time-consuming, so I have to admit that I don't reread or proofread anything, and in fact I often don't even look at what appears on the screen as I'm typing. Not wanting to spend too much of my time on the computer, I just don't care to correct my errors. It's very unlike me to have such an attitude, and I know if I ever go back and read these I''ll be embarrassed.

I'm in Spokane on a scheduled rest right now, and will be here for a couple days. There probably won't be any more big updates until Friday night or Saturday when I'm in Coeur d'Alene.

Thanks a lot to those of you leaving comments, I always look forward to reading them.

Derek