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| Colter Marina, Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park |
It's my last day in Wyoming. No, not the going home day, but
the last day I actually do something vacation-y.
It's a bittersweet day
because although I enjoyed our trip immensely, I'm ready to go home. It feels like I’ve been gone forever, and it feels like I never want to sleep in a motel
bed again. But the thing is, I’ll plan another trip for next summer on the way home,
and I’ll plan it with enthusiasm. There will probably be mountains wherever I
plan to go. That’s my thing.
The last vacation-y thing I did was taking a boat tour of Lake Jackson. It was a beautifully chilly morning cruise across the lake.
Our family gets one week of vacation a year, and the last day
is always the day that the thought that it’s
almost over for another year will linger in the back of my mind shadowing
everything I do.
I’ve counted down to this day. On day one, I say to myself,
“This is great. We are having so much fun, and we have six more days of
vacation left.” It goes like that for several days, at least, until the
mid-point of the vacation. Then, I begin the end of vacation litany. “This is great.
We are having so much fun, but we only have two more days of vacation left.”
In seven days, I’ve seen six states: Louisiana, Texas, Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. (Yes, there was some air travel involved, right
between Texas and Utah. Have I mentioned how much I hate DFW Airport? No? Well,
that’s another blog post.)
I’ve covered a lot of miles. I’ve taken a buttload
of pictures, and I’ve gotten some terrific writing inspiration. Like, the hotel
where we stayed the second through fourth nights has its very own ghost story,
and the mist over the thermal pools in Yellowstone in the evening has given me
some ghostly inspiration.
So now that I’m home, I’m hitting the writing hard again. I
have new inspiration.
I'm finishing up a ghost story for a box set with five other authors. Watch for Mystic Passions coming soon.
I'm finishing up the last book of the River Road Haunted Hearts set. I don't have a cover for The Sweet Madness of Honeysuckle yet.
And I'm working on two other paranormal romantic suspense books: Second Sight and Oceans Apart.
