It was another leisurely get-up this morning, but I was still up relatively early. We planned on leaving late because we wanted to visit Mt. Rushmore after dark. A few friends suggested we go after dark. We would leave down the road we had arrived on the first day to see things now in the…

After the long road trip, we slept in with no alarms set. I still got up a bit early but headed straight to my spot for my usual routine thus far: coffee, fire, post. I brought my coffee mug, which a friend gave me for Christmas. Amanda laughed at me for wanting to carry it…

It would be a long day, the longest of this trip, so I was up early. I usually get ready after Amanda; I gauge my time by where she is in her routine. Getting ready first gave her uninterrupted time to get ready, with no steaming mirror while putting on makeup! Today, I took a…

I woke up early, and I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I put on a pot of coffee. The view out of the cabin was astounding, with the A-frame tucked up in the woods on the side of a hill. Then I went upstairs to a sitting area with a nice chair and worked…