In addition to being incredibly grateful that we have the good health, time and resources to take this trip, we are specifically grateful for:
- Our car and our mechanic - we have had zero car issues
- Traveling mercies - we have seen no accidents nor experienced any of our own
- Good weather juju - it started raining just as we finished packing up our campsite in Arizona; we had 2 dry days in New Orleans and it was raining the morning we left; we got to Shaggy's on the Gulf Coast just as a torrential rainstorm hit and we couldn't have found a better place to wait out the storm
- Kindness - we have lost track of the number of people - strangers, friends and family - who have told us to "be safe"
- Limes
- Technology - Tomasina our GPS guide, iTrip, cellphones, Blackberry and wireless internet
- Our travel mugs, Nalgene bottles and the cooler - they keep us fueled on the road
- Maps and good roads - self explanatory
- The Murray Homestead Sitters - ditto
- Low loss ratio - we have left only one thing behind that was easily replaced; we have almost left a wallet, the camera and our black box of electronics
- Each other and the laughs we've shared
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