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Know what day it is?

 It’s Hump Day!  Already! We don’t stop working just because we’re traveling.  We just work with a different view out the window each day.  This is a nice comfortable KOA here in Salt Lake City; a good place to spend the day and catch-up on work.  I say “catch-up” like that’s something that’s actually possible.  I at least need to make sure I’m current each day with everyone I’m corresponding with. My job is to get new clients.  Most of our new clients come by referral, but I look for ways to offer our services to nonprofit organizations that haven’t heard of us before.  I solicit inquiries.  They send me information about themselves.  I send them information about us and what our fees are.  Sometimes we connect. I don’t actually do any accounting work anymore, I just help the people who are doing the work stay busy.  
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Wild Wonderful Wyoming

Sagebrush and pronghorns; Judy calling out the herds.  Crows and ravens.  Snowfence stacked in layers to the south.  A thousand miles of snowfence for a hundred miles of road.  A red-tailed hawk. It’s fairly flat.  The Continental Divide is at 7,000 feet.  We cross it twice.  Between the two high points is a huge plateau with no drainage east or west; recent rains leaving water on any low-lying land. The speed limit is 80.  We maintain our 68.  A dog in my lap.  Blue sky crisscrossed by vapor trails.  A few cattle.  Long slow-moving freights.  A lone dead cow bloating in the morning sun. Point of Rocks, and down to Rock Springs.  Past the turn to Flaming Gorge we’ve never taken in all these years on the road.  A magpie flaps slowly across the road. Little America, Fort Bridger, and Evanston.  A rest stop in Utah for lunch.  Sheep country.  Echo Reservoir.  Downhills.  Salt Lake City.  Our first traffic light in 500 miles. We’re at the Salt Lake City KOA.  2015 summer trip map  
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I was just thinking

 We get video from space and watch the astronauts floating around weightless.  They’re out in space weightless. But what are they weightless in?  They’re in a space station that is on earth would weigh over 900,000 pounds.  900,000 pounds.  And what keeps this 900,000 pound space station in orbit around the earth and not zooming off into space?  Gravity.  Gravity is what holds satellites in orbit around the earth.  Gravity holds the earth in orbit around the sun.  There is gravity in space, yet our astronauts are floating around upside down weightless.  What’s up with that?