We’re still alive despite suicidal deer, wildfires, and driving a U-haul through the mountains.

We are currently diving through Nevada, which is having some serious wild fire issues. We can see the fire damage about 500 feet from the highway and the news this morning said that 50,000 acres are on fire. Ick. I feel sorry for the firemen we see in orange suits in the 110 Nevada dessert heat.

Soo we last updated you from South Dakota, since then we drove through Wyoming, and stopped to have dinner with Amy Heikes, who is newly engaged. Congratulations to Amy and Arik, have fun at wedding counseling ;) . We then drove to Yellowstone and saw Old Faithful and the bubbling mud pits, which were super cool. The drive back out of Yellowstone to the little town we were staying (we dumped the u-Haul at the hotel and took my car up into the mountains) took forever and there were some huge deer/antelope on the road who wanted to end it all. As always, Dave did a great job of getting us through safely.

We are hoping that this is our last night in a hotel (7/8) and that tomorrow night we will be in our cute little Napa apartment and then maybe we’ll be in cell phone range and can call and talk to you all!!

Hope everyone is doing well ☺

Abby and David

P.S. There were several spots in Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada when we lost our radio station and hit the seek button, and the radio just scanned through the whole band for 5 or 10 minutes or even longer before it found another radio station. There were people living there and I can't imagine living where there aren't any radio stations. Yikes. Just one of several reasons we don't want to live in any of those states. (No offense, Amy)