Road trip Karma

As I waited for the flight from SJU to MKE I cried my eyes out as I was in disbelief I was leaving my grandfather is such situation. But I had logically decided that I needed to go to continue with the plans I had set up with Paul. The road trip was the next big part of our adventure. I had made sure my grandfather agreed of me leaving and by the grace of nature he responded with a knotting yes as I asked him in his lethargy. There I was. But suddenly something change my karma. From not finding a overhead compartment to having two seats just for me and a blond guy. I sat down already calm for an inexplicable reason. Because of the change of seats I managed to loose my driver's license, again strangely I didn't panic. I gracefully looked and looked and finally found in at my original designated seat 10D under the cushion. The ordeal had me interacting with many people in the flight but specially with the blond guy (BG). We struck a conversation that I will never forget about traveling, and freedom and good will. He gave me some pointers for our travels since he was himself a very experience husband-wife travel duo. This whole conversation had to be good for both of us because in our next connection we had both planned to give something to one. I had reserved 4 pasteles for him and he gave me the following poem, which he said had became a Oman for his travels

I live my life in Growing orbits
Which move out
Over the things of this world
And though
I may never achieve the last ring
That will be my aim
For I am circling
Around an ancient tower
Around God
And I
Have been circling for a thousand years
Yet I still do not know
If I am
A falcon
Or a storm
Or a great song

By RM Rilke

By then I had already changed to my positive self and had met 2 other interesting souls in the way. Today Wednesday 21 Paul and I had gone 845 miles west passing Wisconsin, Minnesota and camped at the Badlands of South Dakota. Now we are heading to Mount Rushmore. Nothing hold us back just the fear of our own minds, we have started to feel free.

The road trip

We have four weeks to explore as much of the USA as we possibly can. Our only mayor concern is getting eaten by a grizzly bear. Our goal is to see some of the most breath taking national parks and observe wild animals in there natural environments. For the trip we will be camping most of the time and we rented a Prius hybrid to decrease our carbon footprint.

Originally we had sat down to trace a route and although it was very difficult because we had such little time and so much to see we came up with the following.

MKE to Badlands to Yellowstone NP to Grand Teton NP to Meuhler NP to Redwood Forest to San Francisco to Yosemite NP to Sequoia Forest to Mojave Desert to Grand Canyon to Atlanta and lastly North Carolina.

We were supposed to leave on Monday 19 but because of the situation with Moni's grandfather we got delayed one day. As we see it now we are going to loosely follow the traced route but it is just a suggested route because we want to keep it simple.