The Gypsy Tour - Diary Archive
Every few days Roger or Margaret wrote a diary entry, and posted it on the web site.
The entries are grouped by month.
- August 2003 - The Gypsy Tour begins with
a test trip to Montana and Canada.
- September 2003 - The test trip ends and
Roger and Margaret return to Colorado. Tweaks are made to the van, and they head
out again. No one knows when it will end.
- October 2003 - The Gypsy Tour travels the
northeast, following the fall colors.
- November 2003 - The house goes under contract,
so the Gypsy Tour leaves Lancaster County to pack up the house in Boulder, CO.
- December 2003 - With the house sold, we
move all our possessions in a rented UHaul to California. We decide to stay until
the holidays are through.
- January 2004 - Margaret decides she'd rather
work than continue traveling (what a nut), so Roger and Kiya the dog leave California
and heads to Wisconsin, where Roger plans to spend a few weeks visiting his folks.
- February 2004 - Roger heads to Florida
and meets up with his parents and Margaret, and they all go on a Caribbean cruise.
After the cruise Roger and Kiya are left to fend for themselves.
- March 2004 - Roger learns he doesn't have
enough battery juice to keep the laptop working in the national forest, so he finds
a cheap campground where he can stay for a month and write his software.
- April 2004 - Margaret gets a job and apartment
in California, and Roger misses her so much he decides to join her. But he goes
slow, taking three weeks to travel across the country. On August 23, Roger is reunited
with Margaret and the Gypsy Tour officially ends.