Honeymoon

I was thinking that today would be the first day of the count-down to the finish-line, after getting through the middle of the trip, and getting closer to the destination.
Also, today was scheduled to be one of the longest drives of the trip (discarding the flat tire incident), so the initial mindset was not 100% positive.

Things turned out to be different. We started off in a cold and crispy September-summer morning, with an incredibly beautiful landscape of Montana.
My wife had some Starbucks coffee, which also helped to set a good mindset early in the morning :-)

As the day progressed, I never thought about the count-down anymore, and was just engaged in the moment(s), spending another day with my wife with a wonderful backdrop of views, landscapes and picture-perfect scenery's. It made me think of honeymoon, even though I never had one.

Maybe this trip can be classified as one (I am sure Alexandra will claim that she needs an official honeymoon, but that is another story...). I am spending 24/7 with her, and we are doing this for a total of 7 days. We have never done this!!!
I can recommend to every couple to do this, because it is turning out to be a wonderful experience, despite the tough waking-up schedule, driving schedule, dog-maintenance-schedule, hotel-experiences, daily load and unload, junk-food, etc.

It is wonderful, and I started to think that I will be a little sad when it is all over...
How strange: I started the trip thinking it would be a tough undertaking, and now, I start thinking the opposite.

Even the greyhounds are starting to adjust to the ever-changing environment, and are starting to realize the daily sleep-overs are safe. The 24/7 time spent with them also allows me to bond a little bit more with Lady, who is always so difficult to relax. The two of them also bond as they spend a lot of time in the car, where physical contact is difficult to avoid: they almost always touch each other, whereas at home, they don't seem to be close to each other at all. At least not when we're around...

I know I wrote about solitude yesterday, and am writing about honeymoons today, which is quite conflicting, but that is the nature of the human mind. Contemplating, thinking, wondering, estimating, guessing and elaborating. Or maybe it is a Belgian thing...

Enough for now:
* Yellowstone is amazing: Everyone should visit it once in their lifetime.
* Montana is beautiful: I should have bought a couple of hats and boots. And maybe I should organize an official honeymoon there: just to make her happy and avoid all future references to a 'never had honeymoon'. I have to be careful though; maybe I'll lose her to one of those good-looking cowboys she craves for...