T minus 1 Month and Counting

I'm doing it!  I'm taking a Golden Gap Year.

I am setting off the end of next month for a three quarter circumnavigation of the United States, with a short dip into Canada.  Being the neurotic overthinker I am, I have reservations for the first month made already.  I have most of the gear I need, and could technically go right now with what I have, but I think I will be happier with water jugs instead of a dozen Camelbak bottles like I do for local camping, and with something besides three suitcases for the large amount of clothes I'll need, since I'll be doing laundry once every ten days or so.

Did I mention I am primarily tent camping?  Around the top of Lake Superior, across Vermont and New Hampshire, a hotel on Cape Cod, AAC campground in the Gunks, and it's kind of up in the air after that.

Later plans include Virginia Beach again, Ocracoke, Huntsville, Alabama for the Space Museum, lots of zigzagging to get everything in New Mexico and Arizona, then Joshua Tree for more climbing.  I emailed the Twentynine Palms water department to try to find out where the water tower is that Daddy helped build.  I think it would be cool to see that.

I am currently halfway excited and halfway terrified, but my friends all assure me that if anyone can do this, it is me!  I mean, like I said, I have pretty much all the technology, and have used it previously, so I know how to work it!

I will be riding my second cog train, camping at a recreation of a Northwest Company fur fort, chasing waterfalls, touring salt marshes, at least bouldering in Rumney, and watching the climbers in the Gunks, since I don't trad climb, and I don't think even Jay can get me safe in that in less than a month!

Anyway, stay tuned for more excitement.  

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