Not All Who Wander Are Lost

After two nights of rest in our motel, we are on the road again! There are about 11 hours left until we get to Andrew's in Bellingham, so that's what we plan on doing today. It's a long drive, but we are well rested. The car should be doing alright, and we have a free breakfast in our bellies.
At breakfast we met a retired couple who go around with a pickup hauling a huge telescope in a trailer. They drive to places to see pieces of the cosmos and enjoy the journey of course. It was cool to hear about some of the things they've experienced over the years. The lady showed us how to find the largest visible star cluster so hopefully with some binoculars we might be able to see where it is. The spectacular beauty can't be seen without a pretty expensive telescope, however. With one this cluster goes from looking like a 'messy' star to a doughnut of thousands of points of light. With a really, really good telescope it is possible to see a good fraction of the 1 million stars in the cluster.
After a day of rest yesterday Jess and I are ready to keep driving. We both got some good downtime, studying and playing some computer games and such. We ended the day with a couple games of Scrabble, which is about the only portable entertainment that we have. We're getting all packed and ready so we can drive to washington.

-Jx2