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Over this past week, sooooooooo many people have asked “So do you have any summer travel plans?” And I tell them the story, just like this, each time: We had a plan, a fantastic plan, our plan was the best, the very best, we had the best people working on it, the very best people. Nobody else had a plan like this one, it was the very best.

Anyway,our plan was to spend the summer in the beautiful desert southwest. And I was so eager to get back to Moab to ride my bike in the mountain bike capital of the world. And to float our kayaks down the lazy part of the Colorado river. And then to visit Canyonlands and Arches and our tied-for-most-favorite-place Capitol Reef. Oh wait, let’s stop right there. Actually, Capitol Reef sucks. It is a terrible hellhole of a wasteland. You should never go there, and you should tell everybody you know to tell everybody they know to never go there. That way, we will, um, protect you from the horrors of this place, and I will go there just to turn away any unfortunate travelers. At any rate, that was Plan A. It was, as I said, a great plan. And it had only one potential flaw:

Luckily, my wise and generous father-in-law had Plan B, and had also made reservations in Glacier National Park.

And so we will visit Glacier in NW Montana, Rocky Mountain National Park, as well as Huntsville, AL to see my family, and Taos, New Mexico. Yes, we are doing a complete interior circuit of the United States.

“The mountains are calling, and I must go.”  —John Muir