From Russ

 This is Russ. We're in Billings Montana. We have been here three days to rest-no sightseeing. I played golf twice here, and we had two really great meals. Only 125,000 people her, but some very nice restaurants. We leave in the morning for Glacier National Park, then Banff/Lake Louise/Calgary. 

    We've been on the road 7 weeks today. Still terrific. If there's a fly in the ointment it's getting treated for my eye, but that's a minor inconvenience compared to having this incredibly relaxed trip. It's simply wonderful to have none of the day to day concerns we all experience daily even in the best of times. We still don't miss having a home base, but I suspect that that will come at some point, and when it does we'll stop and settle in Florida as planned. But it probably will be on December 1st, as we originally anticipated.

 Trisha got stopped in Wyoming by the state police. We thought she was speeding, but they gave her a warning for not moving to the passing lane on the interstate when there was a car with flashers on on the right shoulder. That's the law in Wyoming. But as I said, just a warning.

   We had a mini-crisis(really mini) when I lost my car keys in our friends' home where we stayed in Denver. Joe and Sharon Wetzel from Mpower were extremely hospitable, and we thank them again. But after Sharon and I returned from the car with some luggage, my keys disappeared. I remained calm(well,not inside). After fifteen minutes of searching by the four of us, I was still reluctant to suggest that Joe or Sharon must have done something with them, but they thought on their own to check their key drawer, and sure enough, they had put them in there. Mystery solved. As I said, a mini crisis, but that's about it for anything negative happening so far.

   We are looking forward to seeing many of our friends in Seattle and Portland at the end of the month. And we'll be back in Rochester in October, and NYC in November.

    Sorry if this is a plain vanilla post, but we're coasting perfectly. There will be some more photos when Trisha gets to post them, and we'll write again after Glacier and Banff.

   Hope everyone is having a great summer. Please send us emails. We really enjoy hearing about things back home, mundane or otherwise. Walter still sends me a Monday email about the weekend golf, and I look forward to that. We might be out of telephone and email contact while in Canada, but that shouldn't be until Wednesday. We can't turn the phone or computer on in Canada(except for hotel wifi), since AT&T charges about $1000 an hour in Canada( well not quite, but pretty outrageous), and tell you about it after the fact, as we learned when in Nova Scotia. It took serious negotiations to get the charges down to something reasonable, and we can't have that happen again.

     Again, hope all is well with everyone.  Russ