Home Sweet Shower

I spent 14 days traveling this summer. First trip was 10 days--Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Devil's Tower, Mount Rushmore, and Grand Canyon. Second trip was 4 days--Acadia. And now I'm back home, and school has started. I've got to find a job soon, because I spent all of my money on school registration and books. The trips were gratis--I went with my brother & his kids. He paid for my costs and I helped watch the kids. Not a bad exchange!

Anyhow, while I thoroughly enjoyed the trips, I am quite glad to be home. There's nothing like your own bed, and ESPECIALLY your own shower, to make you feel like you can handle life. Hotel showers suck. I think next time I'll bring my own shower curtain. Instead of fighting the tissue-paper-thin piece of crap that the hotel hangs up, I'll have a nice, thick plastic curtain that does not leak and does not stick and actually lets you spend enough time under the water to get clean.

The other thing that sucks about traveling is that you don't know the food. For example, a garden salad in California is generally iceberg lettuce, carrots, perhaps some red cabbage, and some sort of tomatoes. But twice in Maine the salads were lettuce, green onions, and red and green bell pepper. I don't like green onions or any color bell peppers. You think you know what you're going to get when you order a 'garden salad', but I guess you gotta ask.

I already have loads of school work to do, so I shouldn't be online, but here I am! Anyhow, let me know what you did this summer, and whether you'd do it again. Or not--I'm pretty easy.