Another busy day around the Apogee horn, friends. No trip starts today, but all sorts of movement around these United States related to our humble trips. To the field!

Well, Dear Reader, my “desh-tiny” line from yesterday fell a little flat at home — my wife has threatened to move out unless I tone down the cheese factor in this blog. What’s that bumper sticker? “Man, I’m gonna miss her” — or something like that? Because cheese, friends, is the only thing I know how to do — it got me through college, dang it (I once wrote a ten-page paper in a religion course about an imaginary frog — and got an “A,” thank you very much…). Alright, enough about me, let’s get to it.