I promise to try to catch up on the blog.

As you all can tell, I keep getting further behind on the blog. I'm about to enter the Mississippi River area and head towards the headwaters. I promise to try to catch up on the blog when I am in Minneapolis. It would be much easier if there was a heat wave or a lot of rain, but I'm not hoping for that. I hope everyone on the East Coast gets some much needed relief from the heat with some rain and the Midwest gets no more rain for a while.