VACATION ON WHEELS

This is a Tony Bynum photo at dawn with spring virga dragging through.

By the time I was no longer circuit-riding, I was so used to living on wheels — not necessarily in different places every night — that I preferred it.  After  the vans, I converted to a small pickup with a bed that was barely big enough to hold a single mattress.  The cab was easy to heat, unlike a van in a Montana winter, but it was a drawback that I had to get out from my little bedroom to drive off.  I was rather trapped and worried about it, but not much.


This was a fav place to spend the night even though I had to pay a bit.  There was an electrical outlet and a nearby pay shower.  (The toilet was free.)  In fact, there was even a laundromat.  This photo is what I could see when I looked up from reading, propped on pillows in the back of my little pickup.  It’s the edge of the arroyo made by the creek that runs along the west side of East Glacier.  There used to be coyotes there, not for a romantic reason but because the town dump was to the left of this photo.  The town is to the right.  The other campers and the buildings are on the side of the photographer.

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