This trip has been following a reliable pattern of 2 steps forward, 1 proverbial step back.

Eric and I have attempted to advance our van living street cred by washing clothes in the stream at our campsite, (+2) however, they still smell like fermented piss. (-1)

Side note: watching your boyfriend labor over a pair of your pink floral panties is quite enough to make any woman further smitten.

-K