The 2013 edition of the Excellent Adventure has begun!  The big idea this time is to drive to Santa Fe.  By way of Montana.  And Canada.  Because, like, they are on the way, right?  Actually, the idea is to head to Glacier National Park then drive down the east side of the Rockies and back up the west side.

Today we made it to Spokane.  It took a while.  It was very rainy and a little cold, there was a bunch of traffic and they were doing “intermittent rolling slow downs.”  Such fun!  But we did get here before dark and had a nice dinner.

Tomorrow things get more interesting as we head into the mountains of Western Montana and meet up with our east coast friends.  We hear the Internet is flaky so we might not be able to post for a day or two.

Well, we’re about to hit the road again.  This time we’re going to Santa Fe.  We’ll go down the east side of the Rockies and come back up the west side.  We’re meeting some friends along the way for a few days in Glacier National Park in Montana.

For the first time we’re carrying a Mac instead of a Windows PC.  But we can bear to part with one of the best blogging tools ever, Windows Live Writer.  So… this post is to prove, or not, that WLW works well, or well enough, when running inside Parallels.  If you can read this, it must have worked!

Otherwise much of the technology remains the same.  Same car as last year (Cayenne Hybrid), same camera (Sony DSC-H55), etc.  We do have a mini- in-car fridge this time, we’ll see how that works.

More from the road in a few days!