Virginia A. Spiegel

I knew when we started this trip in the Boundary Waters that it was the last trip for this tent. I planned on moving it down to being our family tent as one of the zippers was broken.

Since I had already been using it as a quasi-journal when bored and rained in on previous trips (see Monday’s post for a portion of the tent journal including a Tick Count from May 2007), I thought Nancy and I might as well do it up right with some markers.

What fun! My side is pure stream-of-consciousness:

Nancy wasn’t sure where to start, so I said to start with our trip slogans (our favorite is What will be, will be said in a James Earl Jones’ voice). Then she really filled in her side with her wildlife sketches:

We both left space for our 100th day celebration notation, but the tent was so saturated by our last day that we couldn’t write on it.

We set the tent up in Nancy’s yard upon our return to let it dry. Here’s the outside, with space for 100 Days in the BWCAW in the upper right corner:

After we crawled inside, added our last notes, we went to zip the one zipper that still worked and it died also. Ah, the fates. No more camping for this tent journal.

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