Getting Gloria

We took Walter out in Washington for the first time this past weekend. We've spent a lot of time giving him some love and then over Thanksgiving he was in the shop getting de-rusted and a bottom line of rhino paint. We were eager to get him out but the trip went a bit differently than it was going to go in our heads. He still badly needs new tires so all the forest roads we knew of to sleep on had too much snow for us to gamble him on. So at midnight we finally found a state park to plop him into. We turned on our twinkle lights and hung out for a bit but went to sleep pretty quickly after parking.

It was a pretty darn cold night. Sleeping was okay but in the morning we busted out the little propane heater Joshua had brought. We finally got a chance to make coffee and toast some bagels in our van. Watched a movie huddled under blankets. The morning was actually quite lovely.

The afternoon was back to a struggle of finding a road we could park Walter on where we could also legally cut down a tree. After quite the search and frustration we found one. The little road was lovely, and quiet. We picked out an almost 6' tall, our tallest ever, skinny little lady that we named Gloria. This year we thought ahead and brought a small saw. It is actually the saw I got for school to cut balsa wood, worked better than we thought. We had a lovely cheese and cracker lunch in Walter then headed home to warm up.

Wasn't the smooth relaxing outing either of us imagined but it was still nice to get outside and feel the cold air on our cheeks. Next up new tires for Walter!