Because we had gotten off to such a late start at the beginning of the road trip, it also meant that I could return the rental car a lot later. That gave me the opportunity to have a good sleep-in. Then I finished emptying the car and cleaning it up a bit. I drove the car to Victorville to return it, adding a further 17km (10 miles) for a total ( Read more... )

We got off to a reasonably early start today because not only did we have a long way to travel, but we also had to allow time to visit the Grand Canyon! We approached from the east so that we saw some of the canyon land start to appear. Our first stop though was in the National Park at the Desert View Watchtower. While the tower is built with ( Read more... )

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Sales were pretty poor. To fill my time, I called upon my atrophied drawing ability to draw something in Gary’s sketchbook. Slightly naughty, so I won’t show it here, although I might put it up on Fur Affinity later. I got three drawings done by various artists in my own books. When the dealer den closed and I counted my total sales, I had not ( Read more... )

The second day of sales in the dealer den were marginally better than the first day, but overall the customers were down for everyone. Gary reckoned that it was much quieter than previous years, and we speculate the recent hurricane had much to do with that. At least I got to meet and talk with a lot of people during the day. That evening, Gary, ( Read more... )

Because I arrived too late to pick up my membership yesterday, I had to wait until Registration opened before I could get my badge and get into the dealer room to set up my books at Gary Akins’ table. Not that there was a great rush because the room did not open to the public until midday. I attended the opening ceremonies before that happened. ( Read more... )

Farewell to Matt, and we head east to Olive Branch, Mississippi - just over the border from Memphis, Tennessee. The goal was the Whispering Woods Hotel & Conference Center which was to host Mephit Fur Meet. I timed the departure to get us there around 5-6pm, and the trip was going well. We had gotten through Dallas with no trouble and then into ( Read more... )

Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 August 2017 ( Read more... )

Although we had originally hoped to visit another national park, we were due in Fort Worth, Texas by Friday afternoon, and that was a two day trip ahead of us. So we headed east and then south back through Denver and stopping for the night in Raton, New Mexico . Nothing special about that town except that it was virtually exactly halfway to our ( Read more... )

We headed east back into Wyoming - our destination: the Grand Teton National Park. Although if we had spent the night in Yellowstone and would have gotten to the Tetons much earlier, we did get to see some interesting scenery coming in from the west instead. Despite trying to take a road that was little more than a very narrow gravel track, we did ( Read more... )