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1月31日 Ghost Hunters hit the New Again!Ghost Hunters hit the News Again!
It doesn't seem like I have to wait long before something ghost related pops up in the news. 1月30日 Ghosts in the NewsGhosts in the News
I found this story in the news. It'll be interesting to see if any more news comes out on this. 1月29日 Deadwood, one of the True West towns of the yearDeadwood: One of the 'True West' Magazine Towns of the Year
Nothing new about this actually other than the fact that Deadwood keeps moving up in the ranking each year. It came in at number two this year but really should have been number one. All I have to do to prove my case is point out the active efforts of the town to preserve the old west heritage there. Now some people will argue that it has been taken over by gambling. My opinion is that gambling has literally saved the history of this town! Just do your homework, research what was happening to Deadwood throughout the 1980's. The town was sliding into ruin then! They didn't have the money to even maintain some basic services! Now they have a very active historical preservation program and the money to do it!
1月27日 The Wreck of the SS ValenciaThe Wreck of the SS Valencia
I've started keeping a file of information and evidence on maritime mysteries. This has always been a passion of sorts to me; just about every nation has legends of 'ghost ships' and other mysteries on the high seas. Right here in Minnesota we have a number of these around the Great Lakes! One of these days Laurie and I are planning a trip up to Duluth and we might collect some more of these then.
Right now I want to put this link on.
The first step in this sort of research is to establish the historical facts around any mysterious event. The Valencia has been reported on and off over the years as a "ghost ship". There are a lot of interesting stories of finding one of the lifeboats from the doomed steamer 30 years after her loss. I get particularly interested when the legend includes accounts of ghostly ship apparitions. Think about it, it is one thing to have the apparition of a long dead person but a whole freaking ship! Now if you had a camera for that even the TAPS guys would be impressed!
One source I use more than I would regulary admit it Wikipedia. Take a look at what they have on the Valencia.
Now Wikipedia is definitely not always the best source. You will find a lot of debate over different Wikipedia articles and their accuracy. It does represent a good place to look first though and very often has links to other better sources of information. I particularly like it when it lists a book and an ISBN. Books are good because almost always there is some sort of critical analysis in a review of the book out there somewhere. If the book stands up to this then I might just have to read it.
Now you might wonder if I spend a lot of time at the library or just buy a lot of books. Laurie and I do a lot of reading. Heck, we have thirty sets of bookshelves located all over our house! So do we spend a fortune on books? Not really. Let me show you one of my secret weapons in my research:
Hamilton Books is a book lover's dream come true! They deal in publishers overstock and liquidation. I am often amazed to find the latest best selling books showing up here at a steep discount. Now the only problem with Hamilton Books is that they don't ship outside the continental United States. Bummer for my readers in the UK. There is an alternative for those people to follow up on - check Ebay. Seriously. I have found literally hundreds of books on Ebay and usually at considerably less than you will find on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
But what about the rare titles? Sometimes investigating the historical requires looking for rare and out-of-prints titles from long ago. Yes, difficult but not impossible. Let me point out another wonderful site:
Now the problem here is that they will very likely be able to find you somebody selling the title you want but not at a cheap price. This is the nature of buying rare titles. It is a strict part of my methodology to investigate the title to determine how much value it might have. I don't buy a book if I don't think it will contribute something to the research.
So how do I cut the costs of this sort of investment? That and what do I do when all the shelves fill up. Well, Laurie and I have been known to have piles of books in the oddest places around the house. It is usually a good sign that we need to liquidate part of the library when the clutter gets so severe that we can't easily enter a room because of the books. I can and do sell some of my books on Ebay. Since most of the booksellers I deal with online accept Paypal it is relatively easy to turn the books from clutter into cash and then into new books to put back into the clutter again. Odd how this works.
There is another alternative though. As good as I have become in shipping things - some of my favorite people work for the United States Postal Service - sometimes I don't want the hassle. Sometimes I also know that some books hold relatively little resale value. All of those Windows 98 books I once had don't have a lot of draw on Ebay. There is an alternative outside of simply throwing them out:
Half Price Books is just a wonderful place! If you don't have one near you then write them an E-mail! Let them know they need to open one near you! Laurie and I could spend hours hunting through any of their stores. Now here is the valuable fact to add to this; they buy any books you bring in. This is their stated policy. Every day of the week you can bring in your brick-brack titles and they will buy it. Now, mind you, they may not pay you the most for those old Windows 98 books but they will take them off your hands and you will get some sort of cash back. They admitted to me that they commonly recycle such low value titles but, heck, I got some cash! Now I usually then turn right around a spend it there on more books. I don't think my unloading my old computer books on them hurt them in the least financially.
Now here is the other wonderful thing about Half Price Books; that policy of buying everything means they often get title that are valuable to me! The same book you were looking at from a Barnes & Noble or Borders might be right there at Half Price for a lot less money. You have gotta love this.
Okay, enough about how we do things. We love the research but research takes time, work and patience. The file on the Valencia is just started. We will update this further as we find more and put it right here. Soon I will tell you about such fascinating things as newspaper morgues and pulling official records!
The SS Valencia Ghost Hunting Battle at GettysburgGhost Hunting Battle at Gettysburg
I was worried that just this sort of thing was going to happen. Now that ghost-hunting has become such a fad thing to do it was almost inevitable that there would be some sort of backlash as abuses took place. It looks like this paranormal conference might have run into it.
Paranormal Conference Could Cause Clash
It was my understanding that my favorite ghost-hunting duo, Grant and Jason, were not going to attend this. It just makes me wonder if they didn't know already that this concentration of paranormal buffs in and around National Park Service property was an invitation to trouble. The NPS has not exactly been the most open minded about this sort of paranormal research in the first place. 1月26日 Indulging an old passion...Indulging an old passion...
The Battle of Jutland and the Imperial German High Seas Fleet
Every so often I need to switch gears; if I don't I tend to get burned out on a topic after awhile. So I am digging through the backshelves of my personal library and going back to my 'rivethead' roots. When I was first in college as a History Major some thirty years ago I was fascinated with the Imperial German High Seas Fleet. This is a amazing story in many ways and largely forgotten today.
To make a long story short Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany decided he wanted to create a navy that would rival that of England. The British Royal Navy was, at this time, the unchallenged master of the high seas. The British Navy was designed and built to be able to protect the wide-spread British Empire and defeat any two other navies in the world combined. Britannia had essentially controlled all the world's sea lanes for almost one hundred years since Nelson's victory at Trafalgar on the 21st of October in 1805.
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Wilhelm had ambitions to give Germany a battlefleet to rival the British Navy. I'm not sure how well thought out this decision was. There were political figures in Germany that questioned why a traditionally land-based power would want to venture onto the high seas. Wilhelm's dream of a German fleet were helped greatly by the additional ambition of having a oversea's empire - just like Englands. He also had his own naval mastermind to help implement this plan - Alfred von Tirpitz.
Alfred von Tirpitz
Tirpitz was almost the physical embodiment of the ideals and spirit that would eventually become the Imperial German High Seas Fleet. Starting in 1898 Kaiser Wilhelm and Admiral Tirpitz worked closely to create a modern, powerful navy that could and would challenge British naval supremacy. Tirpitz was also careful to explore ideas in naval technology that would eventually threaten England from directions they had never experienced before - the submarine.
Now the British Admiralty was not oblivious to this development. I don't think they initially took the German naval expansion that seriously. They were more concerned about a hypothetical alliance between the French and the Russians and they also kept an eye on the growth of American naval power that started with the new American 'Steel Navy' in the 1880's. The British eventually came up with an idea to preserve their naval supremacy against all rivals. At least they thought it might work.
England had First Sea Lord Jackie Fisher; he was a firebrand of change that worked zealously to insure the British Navy would remain the most powerful force on the high seas well into the 20th Century. He wasn't afraid to advocate serious change or to rattle the cages of tradition. He also paid attention to the growing threat of the German High Seas Fleet.
Jackie Fisher
Possibly his greatest single change was in the creation of one warship. This ship would change to entire course of naval history in a single bold stroke. The HMS Dreadnought was the world's first true all big gun battleship. It embodied a number of new technologies; new engines, better forms of gunnery control, better forms of protection. It was also built in the astoundingly short time of one year and one day when most battleships could take as long as three years to construct. In one bold stroke it made every other battleship in the world obsolete and, for a short time, only England had the Dreadnought.
HMS Dreadnought
I really don't think the British expected a lot of other navies to try to produce their own versions of the Dreadnought. This new kind of battleship was expensive to build and had a lot of technology that other nations had not fully grasped yet. Britain had every reason to be proud of their new naval behemoth; they had demonstrated that they would be unquestionably the most powerful naval power.
Then within a year other nations started to build their own Dreadnoughts. What soon was becoming critically apparent to the British was when Imperial Germany started turning its considerable industrial might to the production of their own fleet of Dreadnoughts. It wasn't long before a naval arms race developed between Germany and England. Where the British Navy once had a supremacy in numbers of battleships that numbered in the dozens they now only held supremacy by a much smaller margin. Both nations would strain their economies to build these floating fortresses.
SMS Kaiser
This was a time of growing international tension throughout the world. The French had not forgotten the humiliation Germany had inflicted on them during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The Russians were concerned about both internal and external forces working at the social and political cohesion of the Tsarist state. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a literal tinderbox waiting for a match. Even the far off United States was growing concerned with the political instability south of them in Mexico!
But the British Admiralty was increasingly focused on the growing threat of the Kaiser's Navy. The Germans were proving to be good ship builders and rapidly demonstrating that they could manage a fleet that could operate anywhere in the world. England was also feeling the very real financial strains of maintaining their naval advantage over the Germans. German naval thinkers even began to openly talk about 'der tag'; the day they would ultimately challege England in battle for naval supremacy.
Then the spark came that ignited the inferno.
On June 28th, 1914 the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated on the streets of Sarajevo. This single event would start a chain of events like a row of dominos falling. Armies would march, declarations would be issued and Europe would fall head first into a war nobody really envisioned. War plans that had been made for forty years would all ultimately fail as a bloodbath would grasp the continent for the next four years.
Initially there were a lot of people who expected the British and German navies to fall on each other in a battle of Armageddon like scale. The British Empire sided with the French and Russians over the provocation of the German invasion of neutral Belgium. There are a lot of people who feel this was only a political excuse to justify a war to finally remove the threat of the German High Seas Fleet. I personally question this logic but the fact of the matter stands that the Royal Navy now had its chance to remove the German threat.
There were a lot of people who thought the German High Seas Fleet would rush out to try to interdict the movement of the British Expeditionary Force from England to the continent. There were officers in the British Navy who wanted this to happen! The Royal Navy had never been more ready to crush the Kaiser's fleet.
The Germans would do little to directly challenge the British. They wanted to try whittling away at the strength of the Royal Fleet with their submarines, mines and light forces. The British also did not want to rush into the German fleet anchorages and expose their valuable dreadnoughts to German defences. The Admiralty even decided to break the British naval tradition of a close blockade by having their fleet in the North Sea keep a safe distance from the German fleet.
This is not to say fighting didn't take place. The two fleets would frequently sortie like two prize fighters gradually dancing around a boxing ring. They would throw light feints to test each others resolve. Still these small actions could result in extremes of bloodshed.
The Sinking of the SMS Blucher at the Battle of Dogger Bank
Eventually this would all come to a head though. As the war on the continent dragged on into the bloody stalemate of trench warfare the leadership on both sides of the North Sea looked for answers in their as yer untested naval resources. Eventually this would come to one battle. It was not the Armageddon like struggle some wanted and expected. It would enter the realm of historical 'what-ifs' and debate still rages over decisions made and not made. It would also be an incredibly bloody day for both fleets.
This was the Battle of Jutland.
I found this You Tube video showing divers going down to two of the British wrecks from the battle. This was a battle that would involve over 250 ships, of these 25 would be sunk and over 10,000 men would die. No death in battle is ever a good one but some of these were particularly horrible when you consider the nature of warfare at the time. When I watched this video I could only think of all the thousands of men entrapped forever in these wrecks.
Okay, enough for now. I really wanted to make this a short introduction to one of my historical passions. This is just to big and grand and terrible a topic to deal with in a paragraph or two. Don't worry, I'll get back to the ghost stuff shortly. Laurie and I have a lot of things going on there. The fact is we have so much going on in the paranormal arena that it is difficult to know where to start telling about it!
So, for the time being, forgive me if I indulge my 'rivetheaded' side...
Ghosts of the Vietnam WarGhosts of the Vietnam War
It seems like any and every tragic event in human history has ghosts and the paranormal. I guess it shouldn't shock me that the Vietnam War should have some to. I found this story earlier this week. It is sort of long so I set it aside until this morning to be able to read it. It just makes me wonder when ghosts will start showing up from our current conflict in Iraq?
1月25日 Ghost Tourism and the USS HornetGhost Tourism and the USS Hornet
I have a personal fondness for old warships that are turned into museum ships. I always think it is a bit sad when a warship goes to the breaker's yard or is expended as a target. It is like losing the pages from a history book.
In the case of the USS Hornet the ship has been preserved. The funny thing, at least to me, is that one of the attractions of the ship are the rumors that it is haunted. When you consider the number of men who have died while serving aboard these ships it really is no shock to me. I found this news story of a tourist group actually spending a night aboard the Hornet.
Here is the actual website for the museum. The website is a lot of fun but I didn't find a mention of the ghosts.
Haunted Castle for SaleHaunted Castle for Sale
I'm not kidding! There is a haunted castle up for sale!
I don't think Laurie and I will be running over there right away to buy it. Think of the opportunity for the very well funded paranormal researcher! How often does a haunted castle come up for sale!?
Here is the link to the castle's own website.
It looks to me like a great place to stay! If you wanted to open a 'bed and Breakfast' of the most special kind this would certainly seem to be the place. 1月24日 NATO Strategists call for Pre-emptive Nuclear OptionNATO Strategists call for Pre-emptive Nuclear Option
I'll tell you the truth; I deliberately avoid the 'Booming Prairie Chicken' slipping into being either a news blog or a political blog. There are already about a hundred thousand blogs going on about the events of the day or the political quagmire we seem to be in. I'm just not interested in this blog going down that worn-out road.
Then we get something like this.
When I first heard about this I was initially flabbergasted! I thought somebody was joking! The fact of the matter is that it appears to be utterly true. Five former NATO generals, including American general John Shalikashvili, are telling us that in order to protect western society we might have to resort to the use of nuclear weapons in pre-emptive strikes against unspecified targets. They are very specific in saying that our present course of actions against the growing threat of Islamic extremism is not working. They are stating that negotiating with terrorists will not work. They are also saying that methods of conventional and even unconventional warfare will not work. They also are saying that attempting to build a better environment to prevent the forces that foster the sort of terrorism represented by groups such as Al-Quida will not work.
What they are saying is that if we want to preserve our western way of life, our current society, we will have to be willing to resort to the use of nuclear weapons. Now this is not coming from some sort of war-monger type general from the Reagan era. John Shalikashvili served during Bill Clinton's administration! He was actually one of the proponents of using the military in humanitarian roles!
Now he is apparently advocating nuking the bastards.
I am not sure how I feel about this. It sort of shocked me this wasn't front page news in the United States. It also makes me wonder if the threat of Islamic extremism is horribly understated. Maybe we should all be paying closer attention...
1月22日 Another case of 'Ghost Tourism'...Another case of 'Ghost Tourism'...
My nifty search engine popped this story up today:
1月20日 Another Haunted Building in the News!Another Haunted Building in the News!
Thanks for all the E-mail with recommendations and links! Here is another one from a newspaper out there.
Yes, at this rate I am going to have to start using tiny URL. It seems like I am getting a lot of reports off colleges. I really don't mind hearing about them. Keep sending them and I'll see if I can keep posting them. News on another 'X-Files' Movie!News on another 'X-Files' Movie!
I'll admit it. I was a fan of the 'X-Files' television series. Heck, Laurie and I have all nine seasons and the one movie on DVD! Who couldn't love Scully and Mulder investigating all the bumps in the night and conspiracies around every corner!
Now we have news that a second movie is going to be made!
You can bet we will be there to see it when it comes out.
The Mild, Mild WestThe Mild, Mild West
For my Deadwood loving audience out there I found this interesting link. It tends to challenge to popular perception of life in Deadwood during the gold rush.
Now the conclusion here seems to be that Deadwood was not nearly as dangerous as Hollywood would have people believe. I can see their point of view and accept their conclusions. I don't know of a single case of the classic Hollywood gunfight taking place in Deadwood. I do know that death was a lot more common then than it is today; I would bet the average life expectancy of a prospector in 1876 was not all that high. This life expectancy would be particularly short in this time frame if they ran into any Lakota or Cheyenne. Now I really have to wonder how well anybody was keeping track of this at that time? It would be one thing for people to find bodies in the streets of Deadwood but what about out on the claims.
Still, this article is worth looking over. Definitely check out the list of books at the end. I have read several of them and they are excellent. Another Haunted House in the NewsAnother Haunted House in the News!
Here at the 'Booming Prairie Chicken' Command Center we try to keep our readers in the loop of the paranormal findings we collect. This is one of the current finds our diligent little internet robot has brought back to us:
I am really beginning to wonder if someday realtors won't have to list whether a house is haunted or not?
Heck, with the growing popularity of shows like 'Ghost Hunters' and 'Paranormal State' it might be a plus to list your home as haunted!
Or, in this case, the ghosts are helping with the interior decorating!
Then we have a memoir by a writer who, along with transgender issues, tells about living in a haunted house!
1月19日 The Paranormal and RockThe Paranormal and Rocks
I found this online article about the paranormal and rocks. With what Laurie and I have been looking at in the Black Hills this just seemed like an article worth reading:
1月13日 TAPS and the United States Air ForceTAPS and the United States Air Force
When I saw this on the official TAPS forum I immediately had to check it out. Yes, Jason and Grant are taking their crew to investigate paranormal phenomena at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base!
This is one of the places that figures highly in just about every conspiracy website and paranoia forum I know of. It doesn't sound like my favorite plumbers are going to be checking out the notorious, and largely mythical, Hanger 18. It does sound like the public relations people at the base have some interesting locations though.
First the United States Coast Guard and now the United States Air Force! Before you know it they will be looking for the ghost of Abraham Lincoln in the White House... 1月12日 Ghosts, the paranormal and scienceGhosts, the paranormal and science...
I found this article while surfing some paranormal websites; this is definitely worth checking out:
When scientists debunk ghosts their first statement is usually, “there is no scientific proof of the existence of ghosts.”
This is wrong. There is scientific proof. Science even has theories that explain something must be happening beyond what we know and what we can see. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Time Magazine's Man of the Century and one of the greatest minds the world has known, taught us that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form of energy into another form of energy. This means that no matter what is done energy cannot be destroyed.
Human beings have both electrical and chemical energy in our bodies. We are organically designed to carry our electrically charged brain and nervous systems. When we die our chemical bodies begin to break down and decompose. The organic side returns to where it came from - energy changing into a different form of energy as Einstein's law says. So what happens to the electrical energy that flows through our brain? It can't simply disappear or fade away out of existence. That would break the laws of science. That energy has to still be somewhere only now it has changed into a different form of energy. What happens to the energy is really determined by personal faith. No one knows exactly what waits beyond this life. What we do know, thanks to science, is that the electrical pulse energy in each human being will always exist because as a rule it “cannot be destroyed.”
Another great scientist who believed in life after death was Thomas Edison, (1847-1931). Edison was a genius ahead of his time. He invented the light bulb, phonograph, typewriter, electric motor, stock ticker, and 1093 other patented inventions. One of the inventions that he worked on at the end of his career was a secret project, a machine that would let the living see and communicate with the souls of the dead.
Edison believed that that the soul was made up of what he referred to as “life units.” These microscopic particles or life units could rearrange into any form. They retained full memory, personality and were indestructible. Edison's machine would detect these life units in the environment and allow living individual to communicate with the dead. He put many years of hard work into his new creation, but sadly, he died before it was finished. Some called Edison crazy. Others thought that he was onto something bigger than the idea of the light bulb. They believed that if he would have had a little more time, we might all today be living in a very different world.
It's been found that in almost every ghost haunting and poltergeist that there are certain electrical elements at work. Using EMF detectors ghost hunters can monitor these electrical forces. These devices can examine and record even the smallest fluctuation in the surrounding electromagnetic field. Everything gives off some kind of electromagnetic field, even our own bodies. Electrical appliances, like television sets and computers give off higher distortions than a lamp or a toaster would. When ghosts are present there are higher levels of electromagnetic distortions. Many times the distortions are so high that they interfere with the working abilities of computers systems and audio/video equipment. High levels of static electricity are also detectable.
Recording temperature changes is another scientific way of detecting the presence of ghosts. Fluctuations of more than 10 degrees have been recorded in small areas of rooms with constant temperatures. It's a scientific fact that there has to be some form of energy present to alter the temperature. Temperature does not change unless "something" is affecting it one way or the other. In many ghost sightings witnesses report feeling a cold spot. This could be caused by the fact that light does not seem to reflect correctly off of most ghosts, which also gives them a dark form. The light seems to be absorbed into the ghost. The theory is that ghosts absorb both light and heat energy causing the general area around that ghost to be several degrees cooler. There are also hot spots recorded, which could be just the reverse affect occurring. Instead of soaking up the light and heat the ghost is reflecting it back, causing the area to be warmer.
These unexplainable electromagnetic fluctuations and temperature changes are scientific evidence that something is happening. Ghosts are real.
Source: Zerotime.com 1月11日 South Dakota Geology and the ParanormalSouth Dakota Geology and the Paranormal
Laurie and I have been back from our recent trip to Deadwood for almost a week now. I usually try to update this blog at least every three or four days. This time things are different. My schedule at work changed for January and I don't quite have the free time I once did. Even if I did have the time I have gathered so much interesting information on this last trip that I am not quite sure where to start.
Right now I am researching a number of different theories about the paranormal in regard to the Black Hills. I'm going to try to tell you something about what I've learned so far. I am hearing from a lot of different sources about the high probability that the geological properties of the area might be working in some way to draw, store or focus the energy that constitutes some of the phenomena particular to the region. I keep hearing people tell me that the large quartz deposits in the area might be contributing to all the unusual happenings.
This is my initial impression to this idea; it looks to me like there is a lot of quartz in the Black Hills! While Laurie and I were visiting Keystone we found quartz nearly everywhere! It was in the gravel alongside the roads. It was showing up in the rock formations everywhere we looked. We even saw old ore cars filled with it by one rock shop. According to the sources I have been reading quartz is the second most common mineral on Earth just behind Feldspar. It seemed like no wonder to me then when you would find quartz jewelry and decorative items being sold at almost any giftshop in the area.
I also found out that gold was quite often extracted from quartz during the mining operations in the area. They would pulverize tons of rock in order to get at a single ounce of gold. When you consider the millions of ounces of gold brought up from the Homestake Mine alone you have to wonder how many millions of tons of different minerals were moved during about 130 years of mining.
One book that I found helpful in understanding the unique geological nature of the area was:
'Roadside Geology of South Dakota', John Paul Gries, 1996, Mountain Press Publishing Company, ISBN 0-87842-338-9
Now this book is not going to tell you how the geological nature of the area possibly effect paranormal events in the area. You won't even find a mention of this in the whole book. What it does do is provide a very good, maybe even the best available, explanation of the unique geological properties of the area. It also has a good section in it on the gold mining operations of the Homestake Mine and the geologic formations in the Deadwood-Lead area.
Now when it comes to the possible paranormal properties of different minerals I had to refer to an entirely different set of books. The first thing I discovered was that there were a lot more books on this topic that I could have guessed! I decided to start with what must be the definitive beginner's guide to this whole topic.
'Crystals for Beginners: A Guide to Collecting & Using Stones & Crystals', Corrine Kenner, 2006, Llewellyn Publications, ISBN 978-0-7387-0755-6
If I am reading this book correctly quartz is a commonly used by various religious communities for it's alleged psychic properties. This book did not definitively answer if the large deposits of quartz in the Black Hils would contribute to the paranormal events of the area but it did lead me to believe that further investigation of the idea might be warranted.
Now the problem I will have here is that there is so much written about this in the alternative religion community. I know of a local bookstore that carries quite a bit of this and when I checked their online catalog I found 41 different titles dealing with this! By the way, if you want to check for yourself, that bookstore is:
Magus Books
The way I figure it you have to start somewhere. This is where we will start while we explore this. I will try to add more updates to the blog while this bit of investigation goes on. The problem remains that there is so much material to go through that it is a bit hard to figure out what to tell about. Hopefully I will be able to add more tomorrow...
1月7日 Back in South Saint Paul....Back in South Saint Paul...
Laurie and I made it safely back to South Saint Paul fairly late last night. We had just enough time to do a load of wash for work and to unpack from the trip. I find sitting in a car for ten hours oddly tiring; this is even though Laurie does all the driving! Don't worry, I don't make her do the driving. She likes driving and is very good at it.
Right now I am in the midst of planning our next trip - probably in April. I brought home a lot of material that I need to go over. I really wonder if three months will be enough time to get ready for our next adventure... |
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