Ahhh, another wonderful day on the Odyssey...the sun is shining, birds are singing, and Otto is just purring along. What could be better? Everything is working just great -- even the general mail delivery at the Bozeman Post Office went off without a hitch, as you can see by Kristanne's expression of complete glee in the picture above. We may never stop this Odyssey!
Complete glee?! "Complete glee," he says. This has got to stop. This is Kristanne speaking, the "beautiful fiancee" Sid keeps talking about, and I think it's about time I introduce a touch of realism to this Odyssey. Enough of this "namby- pamby, isn't this great, everythings comin' off without hitch" stuff!
First, the term "beautiful fiancee", became a misnomer on about the second day of the trip. Unless a greasy headed, sneezing, coughing, smelly girl is your feminine ideal. Second, rain. Rain every single day. So many flooded rivers, and flooded out homes that this trip might be called the Tour of Natural Disasters. The dirt roads you've seen pictured in Rock Creek, Montana were only made that much more exciting by the driving rain and the river coming over the banks ready to sweep Otto away. Me with shaky voice saying, "Um, Sid, I think the bank is crumbling away under Otto." There is no denying that near-death experiences fall under the "extreme" category.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Odyssey as much as the next guy, I just thought that our lovely audience out there might appreciate the "dirt". Speaking of which, Otto, as much as I love the car, stinks. I'm sure that Sid & I aren't exactly acting as air fresheners, but I'm convinced that something died in our sink drain. Also, it takes the strength of ten men to lower our pop-top, which luckily Sid is capable of. I've tried hanging the entire weight of my body (which is quite considerable right now) from the latch handles, and still it doesn't budge. The refrigerator likes me, but I don't think it likes Sid. The only problem with this is that I didn't think that refrigerators were supposed to pick favorites. They are just supposed to work.
We have both been looking forward to Yellowstone Park since the idea of the Office Odyssey
was first born. We arrived at the West Entrance, rolled down our windows to be greeted by the
friendly ranger, only to be unable to see him through the largest clouds of mosquitos either of
us have ever seen. We went straight to the Firehole River, a river that Sid could finally actually
fish. As you can tell , he was pretty happy about that, but I'm here for the reality check, remember? Everytime
I stepped outside of Otto, the mosquitos swarmed me. I couldn't take it! So, I'm ashamed to admit
that I spent my first day in majestic Yellowstone Park trapped in the car.
Despite all of these little things, I'm still on Cloud 9 knowing that Sid & I are going to get married. And I really am having a great time, in spite of my own smelly, sneezing, whining ways. I'm just going to have to keep the reality check on this Web page. Extreme Telecommuting isn't called Extreme just for fun. It really can be extreme, and I'm just here to let you decide if it might be too extreme for you...or me!
Pray for the rain to stop soon, otherwise our next stop will be Phoenix, Arizona!
Special Message From Sid: For those of you looking for an Extreme Shot of the Day...well, there isn't one. Sometimes it just happens that way. Check back tomorrow, though -- we're bound to have something by then!
Total Miles for 6\9 = 171