I’m off on a grand adventure. Well. An adventure of some sort anyway.

Have you ever wondered what people do all day when they’re camping? Since I grew up camping I never considered that a question. It’s always been obvious to me. You do stuff.

On my current adventure I’ve been reading. And entertaining this guy who tried to climb into my lap on several occasions.

I haven’t gone exploring or walked the trails. I’ve been here before, many times, usually with Katie. At this exact site. So I spent a lot of time staring up into the sky and talking to her.

And crying of course. Because I miss her so much. She was definitely with me these last couple of days at site #43.

But mostly what I have been doing is waiting for it to get dark. And hoping that the sky will remain clear. So I can do this.

Well, not exactly this….on this shot the center pole decided to slowly sink and swing the camera around in the middle of the 15 second shot. Still, it’s cool.

No, I was working more toward this.

But not exactly this either. I took a lot more, and I’ve only processed a couple of the images from that first night under the stars.

Actually there’s only been one night under the stars. Because the second day it poured rain.

And when it wasn’t raining I sat and worked on the images from the night before.

I thought about where I’d be going next. I knew it was across the bridge.

I’d never been to the state park I was headed to over there before so I was kind of excited. Not so excited that I wanted to drive across the bridge in the pouring rain though.

So I waited.

And waited. And waited But the rain never stopped so eventually I took a deep breath and slowly drove across the bridge to the Upper Peninsula. Where it was raining.

So what happened next? I can’t tell you because I need to take a shower and check out of my hotel room.

Stay tuned.