Day 5
The end of day 4 was a little shaky When my phone decided to not work because it was out of memory, I remind you that my phone debacle is real!! I have been fighting with phones for years now and won't even begin to describe it in this post. Any who, I then tried to hook it to the laptop and transfer everything. While doing that the laptop decided that it wanted to freak out and turn off then do nothing but run the fan, to be honest if it was not for Kristi being with me to calm me down I would be writing about how I lost my **** and destroyed my laptop. Keep in mind the only reason I bought a laptop is because of this trip, I've used it for more now but when I got it that was why. Kristi, my rock, gently reminded me that 1 my luck with electronic devices of any sort is terrible and 2 perhaps this was a reminder that I just need to stop being bothered by the stupid stuff and enjoy my trip. I woke up early, went to the bath house that the park had and enjoyed my second shower of the stay, I learned last time take advantage of every shower because they are nice and you don't know when the next one is coming!! It was then that I really reflected on what Kristi had to say about letting the small things interrupt my trip, I determined that she was absolutely correct. Do not let her know, it may go to her head!!! I got back to camp, woke her up, cooked breakfast and then sat by the beautiful lake with the wild deer while she took her second shower. While packing up I tried the laptop for 1 last time and wouldn't you know it works perfect now!!! I guess the universe was just teaching one of the many life lessons!! We left out and drove quite a bit, about 300+ miles I believe. I let Kristi know that she would forget her days and time and miles as we went along, and we have!! I had every intention of keeping up but when the sensor broke I disconnected the battery in the truck and that reset everything, we have been kinda slack since!!! We made it to the TAT stop where we were able to get a picture for the book they make every year, really cool little spot and I honestly believe the TAT travelers are the most exciting thing to come through the little area it sits!! After talking with them for a second we were off again, trying to gain time. We are in fear that we will not finish the TAT in time to enjoy the other parts of the trip I have planned for us. My goal was to finish the TAT in 20 days then have 10 to come back and see other stuff, seems that most believe the TAT will take the entire time. I have choose to shorten it by skipping many of the unnecessary backtrack and hauling *** every chance I get. I ordered the part I need from a dealer in the middle of Oklahoma about 50 miles south of the TAT and I'm trying to get there by tomorrow. Outside of the TAT stop We were meet with a completely flooded road that I decided to reroute for. While on the trail in the farmlands of AK We stopped to make lunch and were immediately bombarded with the most mosquitoes I have ever seen in my life, and they were HUGE. These were pterodactyl mosquitos!!! In no time at all We had 20+ in the 4runner attacking us and they were huge. We would continue to fight them all day. We drove until nearly 9pm when we found a little spot to set up camp in the Ozark National Forest. We plan to leave pretty early and look forward to being out west. The views today have been awesome as normal and the moon is so full I thought many times there were headlights coming through the woods, here are some pics from today's travels. Till tomorrow, peace.
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