It’s Monday 8/11! What Are You Reading?

We are just a few days from home now, heading today to the Cleveland area to stay with old friends for a couple of nights. We’ve been on the road with our camper for 5 weeks now! We went as far as Glacier National Park and the Canadian Rockies and have seen so many amazing places along the way. The best way to see highlights of our trip is through the videos on my YouTube channel, both Shorts (1-3 minutes) and longer vlogs. It’s impossible to capture the stunning beauty and grandeur of these unique places in photos, but videos do a better job.

Last Monday, I shared a few photos of the trip through North Dakota and Theodore Roosevelt National Park, but after I posted that, we drove to one more place, Painted Canyon, to catch the sunset. It was well worth it!

After a harrowing drive through heavy rain in North Dakota and a wet night in Minnesota, we arrived at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin. Our campsite was across the street from Lake Superior in Little Sand Bay, so we had easy access to the beach and great sunsets! We explored the islands with a kayak tour (we even went through some caves!) and a boat tour at sunset. It’s a beautiful area!

We hated to leave that beautiful place (we said that every time we moved!). We spent the next two days driving through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with a lakeside campsite (not on Lake Superior but a smaller lake).

Finally, yesterday afternoon, we had to reluctantly leave the beautiful, cool north country to return to “civilization.” So far, it’s too hot, too humid, has too much traffic, and is much too people-y!

What We’re Reading

I’m still reading Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman, for both Big Book Summer and YA’ugust. It’s book 2 in his fabulous dystopian YA series, Arc of a Scythe, and he’s one of my favorite authors. It’s outstanding so far, with eerie parallels to our own world! My brief description of the series.

My husband is now reading The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis, a book I loved a few months ago by one of our favorite authors. Here’s my 3- minute review.

Yesterday, we finished listening to Blood Lure by Nevada Barr, set in Glacier National Park (another author we both enjoy). Today, we started listening to 61 Hours by Lee Child, a Jack Reacher novel set in South Dakota. This is my husband’s all-time favorite series.

What are you and your family reading this week?