Ohio and Vermont

We drove from Chicago to my Dad's house in Toledo arriving around sunset. Just a short stay, leaving for Vermont in the morning but i wanted to see my Dad. He is so frail and I am afraid he is dying. We sat up and watch the closing ceremony of the Olympics. He fries himself an egg and microwaves a piece of pizza. I want him to come live with us so we can cook and care for him but we don't even have a home. He gives me some winterbibs and a jacket which i stuff into the canoe. He walks to the end of the driveway waving when we pull out the next morning. We don't see patti this time, she's home late from whitewater rafting and starts school in the AM but we do see 8ball. 8ball has only one eye and last week Ambiana glued an eye on her.

We drove 14 hours to Vermont the next day setting up camp in the Green Mountains at 2:30am. It was the longest stretch since Ambiana joined us and none of us liked it. We were grumpy butts in Montpeleir where we went on Tuesday for Colleen's interview 2b a Lunch Composter. Ambiana and i went to the children's section of the local library (ambiana loves to ask the librarians where the kid's section is :) Last week we looked up some profiles on www.couchsurfing.com enquiring about a place to pitch our tent in Montpelier while looking for jobs and a home and in the library a young woman recognizes Ambiana from one of these posts and invites us to stay with them for the night. After we look at 2 not so nice places we arrive at Jason and Denise's beautiful home in Plainfield and eat dinner and spend the night.

In the morning we help them move their sheep then head into Montpelier to check it out. Later we drive to Gaelen's school for his meet the teacher night. He has a nice young man as his 1st grade teacher and we spend the night with Gaelen and Molly and head out to Boston when Gaelen gets home from school the next day.