Day 1: Diving In

 We kicked things off with the Lake Street Dive concert at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin, then went home to finish packing until the wee hours. After a little nap, we said our goodbyes to the cat and hit the road. Our first stop was a coffee shop in Mauston so Glenn could join a work meeting, after which we pushed on through to Wall, South Dakota. We bought postcards, plus a little journal for travel notes, and then drove over to the Badlands Boondocking area to camp on a ridgeline overlooking the wild landscape. After a quick dinner of pre-made stew and crackers, we enjoyed the very vivid stars and a few sips of celebratory whisky from the bottle Glenn bought after finishing his Master's. As it had been a long day of driving after not much sleep, we hit the hay pretty much right away.