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This summer marks our bi-annual family vacation -- every two years H, Z and myself head west to one of the national parks. On the last one we went to Glacier, f'instance. This summer we're heading back to Yellowstone. We went in '03. Since this will be the last 'official' trip with Z (college and all that next year), I let her choose the destination, and she picked Y'stone.

Now I'm not a re-visitor. Usually I'm one and done - "Seen it, check, next place please." So this presents a bit of an issue when your daughter picks the six-year-ago destination. But since Yellowstone is a big place, I figured I could make a second trip of it with little overlap. But it took me too long to spec out the itinerary, and the proper lodging in the proper order was unavailable. I called a year ahead instead of a year and a half.

But once I set an itinerary, I'm a stubborn man. Although H's bear phobia precludes any kind of tent camping, the hard-sided RV remained the final camping option. So, we're renting an RV. It's not the Stripes EM-50 "Urban Assault Vehicle" pictured above, but I feel that it will be close. I never pictured myself behind the wheel of an RV, but there's been plenty of non-photographic expectations in my life thus far, so I forge ahead. But I figure that worse-case, I get to tell a good story, and you get to be amused.

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