A few days ago I was in the midst of putting this schedule together on my computer at home. The computer took this as an opportunity to crash so as to do the most damage. So, for anyone to whom I gave my "earthlink" email address, forget it. And anything you may have sent is at least temporarily lost to me. (No, I cannot access that account from my computer at work.)

Despite this setback, I was able to reconstruct the itinerary. So, here is the overall picture of our trip as I have it so far:
In reading it, there are two things to remember - first, that our arrival times are likely to be late evenings for the most part. And that, because of potential delays due to every kind of variable imaginable, no date is carved in stone.

Friday, May 26 Leave Charlottesville toward Raleigh, North Carolina
Arrive Raleigh, North Carolina

Saturday, May 27 Leave Raleigh toward Tallahassee, Florida
Arrive Tallahassee VERY late same day
or sometime Sunday morning

Tuesday, May 30 Leave Tallahassee toward Dallas, Texas
Thursday, June 1, Arrive Dallas

Sunday, June 4 Leave Dallas toward Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arrive Oklahoma City

Monday, June 5 Leave Oklahoma City toward Trinidad, Colorado
Tuesday, June 6 Arrive Trinidad, Colorado

Wednesday, June 7 Leave Trinidad toward Denver
Arrive Denver, Colorado

Thursday, June 8, Leave Denver toward Laramie, Wyoming
Arrive Laramie

Friday, June 9, Leave Laramie toward Casper, Wyoming
Arrive Casper

Sunday, June 11 Leave Casper toward Bozeman, Montana
Arrive Bozeman, Montana

Tuesday, June 14, Leave Bozeman toward Grand Rapids, Michigan
Friday, June 16, Arrive at Grand Rapids, Michigan

Sunday, June 18, Leave Grand Rapids toward Toronto, Ontario
Arrive Toronto

Monday, June 19, Leave Toronto toward Norwich, Connecticut
Arrive, Norwich, Connecticut

Wednesday, June 21, Leave Norwich toward Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arrive at Philadelphia

Thursday, June 22, Leave Philadelphia toward Sea Bright, New Jersey
Arrive Sea Bright

Friday, June 23, Leave Sea Bright to Guilderland, New York (Old Songs)
Arrive Guilderland

Saturday the 24th, or possibly Sunday the 25th, we would leave Guilderland toward Baltimore.
Arrive Baltimore, Maryland
(I regret that we cannot be more certain about our stop in Baltimore. We would love to hook up with some of the many 'Catters there if at all possible. Could we give you a call when we get into the area?)

Monday, June 26, or Tuesday, June 27, we will arrive back in Charlottesville.

The schedule gets a little crowded and shaky in places as we attempt to hook up with all of those we hope to see - especially since so many are concentrated in the northeast. I am certain it will be extremely difficult to drag ourselves away from Old Songs to head homeward. This is unfortunate, but I will have to return to work before they discover how well they can do without me.

A gathering or two may be possible at some stops along the way. Annap and Vixen are fairly definite about theirs. But please wait until you hear more before you make your plans. I am sure details will be posted as they become available.

There are some kind folks who have mentioned the possibility of food or lodging for us and probably still others who were waiting to see what our travel schedule looked like before they said anything. Please know that we welcome any such offers. It would be helpful to us for the purposes of planning, if those who want to offer housing, etc. or who may have already said something to that effect, would send me a note confirming their desire to do so.

As mentioned, my home computer email account is not currently available but I can be reached at work at:
aclark@pvcc.cc.va.us

Note: As for lodging, (and this is mentioned elsewhere I am sure) David travels with an Inflate-O-Bed, and I will have my tent and bedroll so you can put us nearly anywhere. Bill is also quite flexible in this regard. (Anything would be a welcome change from the motels where we will be lodging the rest of the time!) The three of us are rather omnivorous and so are easy to please with regard to food. As to liquids, David is addicted to Mountain Dew. Bill is happy as long as he can make some tea from time to time. (He usually brings his own.) Neither of them drinks alcoholic beverages. I drink nearly anything brown (cola, coffee, etc.) and some things that aren't. I have been known to down amazing quantities of alcoholic beverages at times; but, so that I won't have to try to drive with a hangover, I generally won't be indulging in such on this trip.

Here is a partial list of Mudcatters we expect to see along the way:
Chuck Hemrick, Dani, BarbaraLynn, Mbo, Caitrin, Moonchild, Harpgirl, Jed (aka Liam Devlin), Aine, Folk1234, BlueJay, Lonesome EJ, Sorcha, katlaughing, WyoWoman, Alice, Art Thieme, Big Mick, Rick Fielding, Peter T., Crowhugger, Vixen, Max, Burt, MaryMac, Annap, Annamaterra, Sandy & Caroline Paton. There are countless others with whom we hope to connect and if I have failed to mention someone, please, just attribute it to faulty memory.