Good Evening! We made it to the weekend. Going to be a fairly wet and rainy weekend. Not going to be the nice weekend ever, with heavy rain predicted on Saturday night, but both days in the daytime should be fairly dry. I guess a little rain on the weekends isn’t the worst, because the past few weekends have been quite nice.

I was told I can expect Big Red back on Monday or Tuesday. It was painted last Wednesday, and was scheduled to be reassembled the past two days. The only thing remaining to be done is the bedliner, or so I’ve been told. I think they also have to wait 24 hours to reinstall the truck cap, but after that I should be able to get my truck back. That will be nice.

Not going anywheres the past 3 weekends and not having a car to make any trips to the store for large shopping, I’ve saved a lot of money. Those summer camping trips are expensive from gas to food to the miscellaneous supplies. Not heating bills plus without the Big Truck to feed means a lot more extra money.

Probably try to get out for the last week of summer, plus Labor Day Weekend. A lot depends on the weather. It’s a busy time at work, but I think I can maybe a spare a day off from work, because I haven’t taken any time off in a long time. Also will try to do some trips in September, but that all depends on the work schedule.

I want to try to do two big trips in November. I think the first one will be a trip to Pennsylvania and possibly Western NY and the Finger Lakes. Call it the Southern Tier Trip. Then the second trip would be a North Country trip, possibly spending some time up around Brasher/Massena and exploring some of the State Forests in Saint Lawerence County.