Let's all hope it's going as smoothly as possible. I'm actually writing this post on Friday, 10/15. My schedule at the moment is to get essential groceries today and get packed. All my clothes are in the dryer. Dinner with the family late tonight. Saturday bright and early I'm headed back to camp in Idaho.
But I won't be alone! My daughter has decided she wants to "see where Dad lives." She traveled across the state with me, followed by her mother, who are both here at Sun Meadow and about ready for breakfast. In a little bit, they'll take off for home and I'll hitch up the new trailer and head south for the winter.
It's a light travel day compared to what many people do when they travel with a trailer. A lot of RVers drive 500 miles in a day. Not this old man! It's about 190 miles from Sun Meadow to Wildhorse Casino & RV Resort near Pendleton, OR.
I'll spend Monday writing and tinkering in the trailer to make sure everything is riding smoothly and securely. Then Tuesday, I'll continue south to Homedale, Idaho. I'll spend two nights there, camped by the Snake River. That's 195 miles.
You see, when I pull out with the trailer, I've always followed the 2-2-2 rule. Never travel more than 200 miles in a day. Always arrive by 2:00 in the afternoon. Always spend at least 2 nights at the new location. I have no pressure that requires me to make the trip to Las Vegas in two days. (1100 miles) In fact, it will take me the better part of two weeks with stops in Winnemucca, Austin, and Beatty, Nevada along the way.
I completely tore apart the draft of Team Manager COACH! In the past two weeks. It went from 41 chapters and 143,000 words to 37 chapters and 126,500 words as I culled the filler I wrote. Then I started adding material to set up action I wanted in the last of the book and continue the story. It's now 39 chapters and 135,000 words, and I'm now able to continue writing the last five chapters or so that will finish this book. It moves along just like I wanted it to now. I should be able to finish it before I get to Las Vegas.
I hope so, since I'll get to Vegas just a day or two before the beginning of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I plan to write full-time in November on Bob's Memoir: 4000 years as a free demon. Hoping that I'll hear him talking to me on the drive so I have lots of adventures to play with. I'll be going for my 18th consecutive "win" in the annual writing celebration. A win means you've written 50,000 words on a new story. Piece of cake, no?
The stat history on the site says that I've written a total of 1,922,500 words over the previous seventeen NaNos. I plan to push that wordometer up over the 2,000,000 mark this year. Wish me luck.
I love stats. I keep an elaborate set of spreadsheets with my stats on it and update it daily. My personal writing stats for this year show that I've written 855,875 words so far this year. Don't know that I'll make another million-word year. It's not impossible, but I'm not holding my breath. Who knows? Right now, that's an average of 2,982 words a day. Of course, I deducted the 20,000 I cut from COACH!.
That's the news from the road between Worley, Idaho and Pendleton, Oregon. Enjoy today's reading material!