Travel Blog

Ok, so, my mom called me the other day and yelled at me (ok, my mom doesn't yell at me; how about gently scolded) for not posting in a long time, so I was all set to sit here and write and post some great pictures, but, as usual, I didn't think and all my wonderful pictures are saved on my external hard drive. At home. Not on my computer. So I'm sitting in the lobby at the Lodge waiting for Phil to get off, and I can't post pictures like I wanted to. But I can still tell you a story. I'll post the pictures, um, let's say, tomorrow.

Early Thursday morning, I was awakened at 3:45 a.m. because my RV was rocking back and forth. Now, that's nothing too unusual around here because the winds pick up pretty quickly and get to howling, so I lay awake and listened for the storm. Nothing. No wind. But my house was still shaking. Then there was a loud "WHUMP." And some more shaking. By this time I'm sitting up in bed, blindly grasping for my glasses. I have a bad feeling. WHUMP! WHUMP! I jumped out of bed and ran into the living room. I threw open the blinds...WHUMP! I look out, and there are a billion bison outside the RV. Everywhere I looked, there was a bison. And it was a baby bison that caused the noise and the shaking. It seems the babies were after the long grass that was growing under the RV (well, all the bison were interested, but only the babies fit) and they were going underneath the slides to get to it, and hitting their heads on the underside of our slides.

I was going nuts, because I don't think our insurance is going to be willing to cover anything else for quite a long time, and heck, it's a new RV. So I was yelling and screaming at the bison to "get away from my house" and poor Phil, who had slept through it all up until that point, came out to see what I was fussing about. He learned some tricks previously, though, when the bison visited our RV in the afternoon, and told me to open the windows and shake a plastic bag at them. Something about the noise scares them off. It worked for the older bison, but the young ones didn't seem to care all that much, and continued to romp around the RV for awhile. But no damage was done to our house, and it was fun to watch the babies playing with everyone's stuff. (You'll see what I mean when I get my pictures posted.)

Other than that bit of drama, not too much is going on. We're working hard and having fun when we can. I'll do my best to post the pictures tomorrow, but you know me, maybe I will and maybe I won't.