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Banff and Jasper

Lots of rain in Banff. Day after day of rain. And lots of rainbows.

One memorable thing about Banff is that I was able to get my hair colored and cut. I let it go quite a bit longer than my normal 5 weeks, so I was anxious to get it done. Back home I had the same hairdresser for years. Over the years she had dialed in the correct color for my hair. When we were planning on hitting the road indefinitely I asked her how I could keep my hair looking good while we are on the road. She had some experience with this situation because many of her clients are snow birds and spend their summers elsewhere. She was nice enough to write down the formula that she uses to color my hair, brand name, numbers and amounts. Since the brand was Redken, I went to the Redken website and they have a salon finder where you can search locations and what services are offered there. As much as I think it is strange to have a town in the middle of a national park, I was happy to find some salons right in Banff listed on the Redken site. One website even said they use Redken color so I picked that one, The Albion Room. I was sure to make an appointment a couple days ahead of time. Everything worked out great. The girl said she can just follow the same formula, no problem. Looked good and then she gave me a great cut as well. As time is going by, I start wondering to myself, how much is this going to cost me? To add to my great experience it turned out to be much less than when I get my hair done in Scottsdale. I was shocked!

On the topic of the town in the middle of the National Park, a guy at the hair salon said they do have lots of building restrictions in Banff because they are in the national park. More interestingly, he said to live in Banff you have to work in Banff, so this limits the number of people living here. The locals also had no idea why it has been raining every day in July, it is very unusual!

For those of you that have told us how beautiful Lake Louise is and that we just have to go there, this is what I saw…

And as far as the Icefields Parkway, one of the most beautiful drives in the world, here is what it looked like to me…

I guess it could have been worse, at least we were not on bikes, like these people…

Jasper National Park which is north of Banff is forecasted to have better weather so we head that way hoping for some relief from the rain. With our “no reservation policy” we stop at each first-come first- serve campground along the way on the Icefields Parkway but there are no sites available at any of them. When we get closer to the town of Jasper the reservable campgrounds all have signs saying “FULL”. We get to the Whistlers campground which is very close to town of Jasper and has 781 sites, surely they must have something for us. No sites available there, however they will gladly take our $15 if we want to go park out in a field with an outhouse 21 km up the road. Desperate at this point, we take it. When we first get there it is not too bad, not that many people, outhouses are clean enough. As the hours go by more and more RVs show up, things start getting crowded. One good thing is there are no fires allowed in the field. By 6:00 am the next morning the outhouse stinks and I am chomping at the bit to get the heck out of there. I had visions of the hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans in the Superdome. I just can’t believe that there are so many people camping in Jasper that they have to push hundreds out to this “overflow” area. We show up back at Whistlers Campground before 9:00 am the next morning and get a site for the next two nights. I feel much better at a “real” campground.

The Canadian camping tourists are expert fire builders. It seems they can get a roaring fire going at will, any time of day, any weather, rain or not. Time for a meal, time for a roaring fire. There are huge wood piles in the campground. If you want a fire, you have to pay extra, around $8 / night, but you can then drive over to the huge wood pile, which has been in the mud as far as I have seen, soaking the rain, and get as much wood as you can put in your truck, bring it back to your site and burn it until 11:00 PM at night. There is an 11:00 PM curfew for fires and alcohol.

As for the weather situation, it has not improved. More rain in Jasper. Outside the Jasper Brewery they had this sign: Rain rain go away, come and have a drink today. We did just that.

Thinking the weather was clearing we head out to check out Maligne Canyon and Maligne Lake. There are supposed to be some trails out there. Walking around the canyon, seeing the waterfalls, it is raining like crazy and of course everything is very muddy. Well that just wore us down. We never made it to the lake and headed back to the brewery to console ourselves.

A couple bright stars in Jasper:

Since it is a functioning town, people do live here. We walked by this community garden. I am assuming each person has their own space they take care of. They were growing lots of lettuces, chard, kale. It all looked great.

On the way out of Jasper we finally saw some mountain goats up close, right next to the highway. We have been looking for them since Glacier National Park and have only seen one very far away until now!

Calgary and Banff

After being without internet for weeks at our campgrounds in Glacier, Waterton and Dinosaur Park we were yearning for some city services. We headed for Calgary which is the biggest town around here. It is kind of hard to camp in a city so the thought of staying at a hotel with wifi and unlimited showers was very appealing. When you see the Canadian prices, things seem quite expensive compared to what we are used to in Phoenix. However, you have to take into account the conversion rate which is in our favor at the moment, you can get $1 CAD for $.77 USD. So a hotel for $200 CAD is really about $154 USD, not as bad. Unbeknownst to us, the Calgary Stampede was going on, which is a big deal in these parts, so I am sure that raised the hotel rates as well. The Calgary Stampede, also known as the “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” is a 10 day event featuring a huge rodeo, parade, concerts and exhibitions. In the end Tim got us a deal by the airport for $107 USD, but that is equal to about 5 nights in a campground! It sure was nice to have some indoor luxuries. When we are in the city we long for the calmness of the wilderness and when we are in the wilderness we long for the availability of services in the city.

While in Calgary we were able to get together with a friend that we met on our Tour de France trip back in 2011 and his wife who live in the area. It was great to get a glimpse into their lives here and to share our crazy van life with them. Another highlight in Calgary was the Calgary Farmers Market. Lots of fresh produce and natural products. A lot of the produce we saw was grown in British Columbia, not too far away. There were lots of delicious berries – blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, yum!

Moving west from Calgary toward Banff we have a quick overnight stay at a provincial park campground near the highway. Very few campers there. The next day we head to Banff. This part of the trip was planned back in January when we knew nothing about van life. We heard Banff was really crowded so we made the camping reservations for a random week in July and now it just so happens rain is forcasted all week here. We do have flush toilets and showers in our campground and there is local transit into the town of Banff. Like Waterton there is a town in the middle of the National Park. It seems strange to us with our experience of US National parks which are more rustic, less commercialized. Here in Banff they are trying to sell something at every turn like hotels and tours. The park service employees are working side by side with the commercial employees. The availability of restaurants is not good for our eating-out addiction!

Our first full day in Banff we were lucky and had very little rain. We left our campground on foot following the Hoo Doo – Bow Falls trail along the river down toward town. We did not bring the bear spray and there were some sections where there were no people so I started getting nervous about bears! Especially since we saw a carcass that had been picked clean, may have been a deer, on another trail near our campground the night before. We also hiked Tunnel Mountain Summit which is a short steep trail that starts in town. The trails are integrated into the town, not what I expected, although I am sure there are many trails in the backcountry as well. At the top of Tunnel Mountain we found the red chairs. Canadian National Parks have these red chairs placed in special locations to encourage visitors to stop and take in the view.

Carcass near our campground

Bow River

Trail sign in town

Tunnel Mountain Summit trail

Tunnel Mountain Summit

Easing Into Canada

We had mixed information about what we could or could not bring into Canada. From what we read it seems like they can change the rules at any time depending on current issues. I was most concerned about food, fresh fruits and vegetables to be specific. I didn’t want to buy a lot of food just to have it confiscated at the border. So we were very light on fresh produce at the border and as it turned out, it didn’t take us long to get across. We had to show our passports of course and the guy just asked us about alcohol, fire arms and weapons. We told him about our 5 cans of Montana beer and our one can of bear spray and he sent us on our way.

There is a Canadian National Park, Waterton Lakes, which is right over the border from Glacier National Park. This is an easy place for us to stop that does not require a lot of driving so we decide to check it out. Since we are planning on going to other Canadian National Parks we decide to get the Discovery Pass, which gets you into all Canadian National Parks for two years. Normally it is for one year, however as part of the 150^th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation in 2017, they are extended the pass for two years. The pricing structure in the Canadian National Parks is different than the US Parks. If you do not have an annual pass there is a fee that is charged DAILY. In the U.S. the entrance fee is good for an entire week. It was more cost effective for us to get the Canadian annual pass.

We head for the first come first serve campground at Waterton which is Crandell Mountain Campground, and we had no problem getting a site. Something else that seems different at the Canadian park is there is a town right in the park, the town of Waterton. It is kind of nice because there are services available, restaurants and laundromat, however there is only one store with groceries which was fairly limited on fresh fruits and vegetables but we were able to get strawberries, bananas and potatoes but had to go with frozen green beans. The deer like to hang out in town here. We saw them sitting on lawns just like a dog would. They must know they are safe here. We even saw a mom with her two fawns, so cute.

Deer sitting in someone’s yard in Waterton

The highlight at Waterton was definitely seeing a bear crossing the road right in our campground! We were driving on our way out of camp to head into town. From what we learned at Glacier, I believe he/she was a black bear that was blond in color. Black bears can be any color and grizzly bears can be any color.

We hiked up the hill called Bear’s Hump to get a view of the town of Waterton and the lake below.

We also went to the evening program at our campground which was about cougars. This one was actually inside a structure whereas the campground evening programs we have been to in the US were always outside. The Canadian interpreters are young adults and the programs are very kid/family oriented. In the US, the interpretive rangers we met were older people with years of experience in the parks.

Turned off by the rainy forecast in the Canadian Rockies we decide to head for the Canadian Badlands of south eastern Alberta. The landscape is barren and exposed and the sun should be shining, more of what we are used to from our desert dwelling past. On our way out there we see endless fields of bright yellow flowers. A quick internet search determines they are growing canola on the prairies here east of Calgary.

When I hear the term “badlands” I just think of South Dakota because they have the Badlands National Park. This prompts the question, what does “badlands” even mean? At the Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks, Alberta they think the term badlands came from the early explorers because it was hard land to cross with no water or animals. Dinosaur Provincial Park is a hotbed for dinosaur fossils. The park is also very family oriented with a play area for the kids in the campground. Tourists are only allowed to go on certain interpretive trails unescorted and you have to pay for escorted tours if you want to go elsewhere in the preserve. This may be about protecting the fossils.

After weeks of very slow to non-existent internet service, we are due for some city services. Calgary here we come!

Month End Numbers

This deer was wondering around the campground at Waterton Lakes National Park not afraid of anything, cute eh? Now that I have your attention… a dry topic – month end numbers.

As the month of June comes to a close I would like to share some of the things I have been tracking. Since we left Phoenix on June 5^th we have been on the road for 26 days, not a full month but it is easiest to track by the calendar month so I am just going with that.

States Visited: 5

Arizona

Utah

Nevada

Idaho

Montana

Types of Campgrounds:

National Forest: 3

National Park: 2

State Park: 1

Private: 2

BLM: 1

Average Campsite Cost: $22.46

Cheapest Campsite: $10 (BLM)

Most Expensive Campsite: $44 (Missoula KOA)

Miles Traveled: 1,669

When we were planning this new lifestyle we kept looking on the internet for expense reports from other people with this lifestyle to see if we could estimate what our own costs would be. There is not a lot of information out there. One big area that was lacking was health insurance costs. The laws and rules on health insurance are constantly changing so there was a lot of outdated information out there. Like pre-retirement age people saying they are only paying only a couple hundred dollars a month for individual health insurance because they are healthy. Yeah right, that does not exist in today’s environment but apparently it did before the Affordable Care Act. Health Insurance is a huge topic for another time. We decided to go with COBRA from our jobs for the remainder of 2016 and reevaluate for 2017.

As I get older I am more comfortable sharing financial information. It is everyone’s personal choice on what type of lifestyle they want to live and everything costs a certain amount, it is just a fact of life. We have tracked every dollar spent since we have been on the road, and this is what we have learned so far:

We are still addicted to eating out
If you need to cut down on your data usage for a month, go somewhere where there is no cell phone service
If you need to cut down on your fuel cost, find a nice spot and stay there
Health Insurance is our biggest expense, a huge fee for nothing. We don’t even use it.

Here is another pretty picture for you from the Canadian Badlands, more on that later.

First RV Park

It was time to do laundry and take showers so we figured we would try an RV park since they all have these things included in your nightly rate. Well the shower is included, the laundry is coin operated but at least it is located in the park. And of course the RV parks are expensive because they have to maintain all these services, this one is $35 for the night. RV parks always look like parking lots to me and I am turned off to them, but chores need to be done so we are giving it a try. Leaving Great Basin National Park everything seems very far away. It really is in the middle of nowhere. We have discovered that driving the van can be much more tiring than driving a normal car. Since it is longer than a car you really have to plan lane changes ahead of time and since it takes a little while to get going you have to have a decent gap when pulling out. So we have been swapping off driving every couple hours or so and we try not to drive more than about 300 miles a day. After all, there is no hurry, why kill ourselves?

The closest place to stop turned out to be the town of Wells, Nevada, a very small town next to the highway. We are staying at the Angel Lake RV Park. RV parks have full hookups – electric, water, sewer, this one also has cable TV hookup. We did plug the van in to the power source but discovered that 1) we do not have the correct hose to plug into the water source for a constant connection and 2) we did not realize that we would need our own coax cable to plug in the cable TV. If we had known we would have saved one from the apartment. So we are still working off the water in our 30 gallon fresh water tank. We have been using it for washing hands, brushing teeth, washing dishes and there is still quite a bit left. We did however dump our grey water when we were in Great Basin National Park because they had a dump station. Tim has done the dumping of the grey water once before so this was the second time for him, first time I have seen it done. So here’s the thing, we have a 30 gallon tank of fresh water and we have two grey water tanks, 10 gallons each, one for the sink and one for the shower. We have only been using the sink, not the shower, so the 10 gallon tank was filling up and had to be dumped but we still have plenty of fresh water.

Washers at the RV park were $2 each, dryers $1.75 for 45 mins. We got the quarters from the office and that all worked fine. Showers were fine, clean enough. It is finally cool, rainy and in the 50s at 10 PM.

View from the RV park. Industrial yes, but beautiful mountains in the background.

Leaving Wells and heading north we decide to stop in Twin Falls Idaho for lunch at Shoshone Falls Park. Amazing waterfalls and nice grassy area with picnic tables.

Great Basin National Park in Nevada

Our first experience with getting mail on the road went smoothly. We had the traveling mailbox forward our mail to “General Delivery” in Baker Nevada. Baker is a very small town right outside the entrance to Great Basin National Park. We arrived in Baker and the tiny post office was right on the main road coming into town. Picked up the package without incident and went on our way to the park.

Great Basin National Park is a place I have wanted to visit for a long time. A coworker had told me that it is a very quiet National Park and there is a lot of hiking, sounded perfect. I read that it is high desert terrain and the second highest mountain in Nevada, Wheeler Peak is there – 13,000 feet. We were hoping to stay at the Wheeler Peak Campground which is up the mountain at 10,000 feet. It must be cool there, right? It turns out they have not opened that campground for the season yet because there is still a lot of snow but they expect to open it this weekend. We will be moving on by then. We are staying at Baker Creek Campground, a couple miles from the visitor center down a well graded dirt road. It is all first come first serve, so we had to drive around and look at the tags on the site number posts to see if the last person had left the site and it was available for occupying. There were quite a few sites available so it was no problem finding something with a little shade over the table. It was very sunny and hot even though the campground is at 7500 feet, but I think this is still part of the heat wave that we had in Phoenix before we left and temperatures may be above normal. Once you claim your site you go to a self-pay station, put your money in an envelope, fill out the info and rip off the top part which shows the date and number of nights you are staying and that is what you clip onto your site number post. This is the cheapest camping we have had to date – $12/night. I have heard it is a good idea to secure your site with some items that show that it is occupied when you go out for the day. So in addition to leaving our camp chairs, I decided to put up my small backpacking tent to “secure” the site. The campground has all dirt roads the brand new van is getting very dusty and dirty inside and out. But this will be the new way of life!

There is a cave here, Lehman cave, the park service gives tours. I am not really interested in caves, but it is a main attraction here so we had to go on the tour. Very interesting formations in the cave, and interesting stories of its past. Apparently there was actually a wedding in the cave sometime in the 1920’s. There was also a “speak easy” inside the cave during prohibition where people would come from the surrounding towns and have a drink!

We decided to hike out the Baker Creek Trail. There is small trail from the campground about a mile to the trailhead. Once on the Baker Creek Trail you cross the creek several times, go through some pine forests, then to an open meadow, and on the way back it gets much sunnier and exposed and we even saw a few prickly pear cactus, which we are familiar with from living in the Sonoran desert.

We also hiked Pole Canyon trail to Timber Creek and I actually saw wild turkeys on the trail! They looked like big dark brown geese. Unfortunately I wasn’t fast enough with the camera, but at least I saw them, so that was cool!

Great Basin has been designated an International Dark Sky Park. Other parks have this designation as well such as Big Bend in Texas and Canyonlands in Utah, but I am not clear exactly what the designation does for them. Somehow it helps preserve the night sky. We went to the ranger’s astronomy program which started at 8:30 pm as the sky is darkening. There were a lot of people there! The theme of the ranger talk was how as a modern society we have become disconnected from our night skies. He talked about how ancient people such as the Greeks made up stories about what they saw in the night sky such as the constellation Cassiopeia, a queen who was being punished because she boasted that she was more beautiful than the gods. This upset the gods so she was banished to sit on her throne for eternity in the night skies. The ranger believes the main reason we are disconnected from the night skies is the increasing light pollution in our cities. He encouraged us to make up our own stories about what we see in the night sky to become closer to it. The rangers then had two telescopes set up and we got to see the moon in detail, craters and all, then Jupiter and three of its moons. Since there were about 50 people it took a long time to get through the line to look in the telescope and we were getting tired. We left early and did not get to see the other planned object viewing. They are also building an observatory here but it sounds like it will be mostly for research and not public viewing.

I believe we as a society we are not only disconnected from the night skies but we are disconnected from the outdoors in general. We live and work in climate controlled environments that are optimized for our comfort. Living out on the road, we are feeling the effects of different weather, because we are out there in it! We are not used to that! So far we have experienced heat which is normal desert stuff, high winds, right now as I am sitting in the van and it is shaking and it is too windy to sit outside because all the stuff just blows away, and rain which cut our walk around the campground short.

I understand why this park is not visited by a lot of people. It is hard to get to and far away from any civilization. As we head out it seems like it will take a long time to get anywhere.

It’s a Brand New Day

I wasn’t sure if we were going to make it out of the furnace they call Phoenix. Unfortunately, there was a heat advisory the weekend we planned on leaving. The temps went up to 114 degrees. This made it very difficult to go back and forth to pack the van especially since the van had to be parked far away from where our apartment actually was. Going across the parking lot with boxes in that heat is draining. But I have to say my husband did the bulk of that work, with intermittent breaks in the AC. There was just so much stuff and it had to go into one of three places, the van, the Goodwill or the dumpster, the decision making was exhausting! We got up at 5AM and left town around 11:00 AM and then drove about 300 miles.

But it’s a brand new day and we are now in the ponderosa pine forest of northern Arizona where it is cooler but not as cool as we would like. It is still in the 90s during the day but 50s at night. We are staying at Jacob Lake Campground in the Kaibab National Forest which is 44 miles north of the North Rim of Grand Canyon. We have driven through here many times but never stayed overnight. The campground only has vault toilets and water spigots for drinking water and it was a bit pricey at $18/night plus a $9 reservation fee, so $45 for two nights. It is most likely because of the proximity to the Grand Canyon. We have trees on our site, bathrooms are clean and neighbors are quiet. We had Verizon LTE service the first day which was downgraded to 3G the second day. Went for a short walk from the campground on the KAI-VAV-WI trail. Mostly we are resting and recovering from the last couple weeks of getting everything ready to go.

Combat the Sitting!

At the very heart of every cubicle job is the requirement to sit for at least eight hours a day. I know employers are starting to implement programs to encourage people to move more, which is great, but no matter how you look at it, they want you to sit, this is what you are getting paid to do. Sounds pretty easy, however we now know that all this sitting is killing us . According to studies, it doesn’t matter if you go to the gym for an hour every day or run your 5 miles every morning, the effects of sitting for extended periods of time take a toll on your body and will cut years off your life.

If you live in a cube, and you want to stay healthy you need to incorporate movement into your day somehow, someway. It is a constant struggle.

An easy way to add movement is to get into the habit of walking places. Keep a comfortable pair of shoes at your desk (maybe some deodorant as well). Think about places nearby where you can walk to get your lunch. Grocery stores, sandwich shop, juice bar, Starbucks (maybe this one is reserved for an afternoon pick-me-up). If you have a meeting in a nearby building, leave your desk early and walk over.

Even easier, set a timer on your computer to go off every 20 minutes and when it goes off, stand up and stretch!

One of my favorite ways to add activity to the work day is to commute by bike. Lucky for me I live close to the office, and actually, living close to work by itself means less time sitting in the driver’s seat and hopefully more time moving. If you are a two car family, and one person is committed to bike commuting, you can sell one car, and save more money for your exit plan. There are a lot of logistics to think about when you plan to commute by bike, but in my opinion, it is a great way to start and end your work day and worth the planning.

You can see my Electra Townie above, which I love to ride to work, 7 speeds, bell on the handlebars, laptop and lunch in tow. In preparation for our exit, my husband has found a buyer for my beloved Townie! Hopefully, it will bring someone else some happiness.

Some things to think about if you are considering riding your bike to work:

What route will you take to get there? Google maps has an option that will show you bike lanes and bike trails. You can study this to determine a route. If you have to cross a highway in your travels look for a walking bridge that crosses it somewhere. This is much safer than a highway on/off ramp area where there can be a lot of traffic. I recommend trying out your planned route on a weekend first to see if it will work and you can see approximately how long it will take you to get to work.

Will you need to shower when you get to work? Some buildings do have shower facilities available, but if you are taking a shower now you have the added issue of all your toiletries and a towel. If there is no shower available or you don’t want to shower you can always freshen up with some wipes and deodorant.

Will you need to change your clothes? This depends on the dress code at work, what type of riding you are doing, how fast you are going, how sweaty you will get, what type of bike you have. My thinking is if you have a nice big seat, a chain guard to keep the grease away, fenders to catch any dirt being thrown up and you go at a leisurely pace to keep the sweat down, you can wear your normal work clothes on the bike. If you want to change your clothes, now you need to store your work clothes at work somewhere. I have heard of people bringing all their clothes for the week in the car one day to work and storing them there then bringing them all home in the car another day.

How will you carry your laptop back and forth? Some people put it in a backpack. I don’t like that idea because I think it would give me a sweaty back. I added baskets to the back of my bike and I bungee the laptop in for the ride.

Where will you lock up your bike? Check out your building ahead of time and see where the bike racks are. If there are none, what can you lock your bike to? Can you bring it inside?

What type of bike should you use? This depends on what you have available all ready (maybe you can fix up an old bike in the garage), how far you have to go (a long ride may require a road bike to go fast enough), will you be on busy roads or on an off road bike path with people walking their dogs and pushing strollers (you may like a bell for this type of riding).

What about helmet hair? My way of dealing with this is to not wear a helmet and stay away from the cars as much as possible. If you have to wear a helmet you may need a hair dryer or flat iron at work. Or put your hair in a ponytail, what’s more important your health or your hairstyle while you are in your cube?

What if it is raining or dark? Rain can be a deal breaker for me, but if you have the correct rain gear and you are serious, go for it! Darkness is no problem, just make sure you have lights on your bike front and back, preferably blinky lights so you can be seen by the cars. Make sure you keep them charged up or you carry extra batteries. Reflective clothing is helpful as well.

The Adventure

Things are coming together. The Adventure Mobile has been purchased, a rough plan of travel has been devised and a start date has been chosen. The biggest remaining task at this point is getting rid of whatever will not fit into the Adventure Mobile.

The Adventure Mobile that we selected is Mercedes Sprinter cargo van which has been converted into a camper van. The idea is that a van is more agile than a real RV and we will be able to get into more beautiful places than if we had a large RV or travel trailer. For example, there are many beautiful mountain passes with vehicle length restrictions. The van is about 22 feet long so we are hoping we can bring it many places. We do not have 4-wheel drive however, so we will be limited on primitive dirt road conditions. We are striving for a minimalistic lifestyle that values experiences rather than material possessions.

Here is a possible travel plan for our first year of travel, however we are not totally committed to any of it. We want to keep things flexible, be able to stay longer somewhere that we want to explore further or leave someplace if the weather is unpleasant. We both enjoy weather watching and forecasting so this will be a very important aspect of our new lifestyle. This plan includes some National Parks that we have been wanting to visit and family and friends scattered all around. However, once I saw this plan on a map, I couldn’t help but wonder if it is just too much driving. I want to spend time immersed in nature, not stuck in the driver’s seat… or more likely the passenger seat.

We are planning on starting out before the low desert of Arizona heats up too much. Last summer we vowed to NOT spend another hot summer here. This is a great place to be in the winter, but summer is uninhabitable. We do planning on visiting the eastern side of the country, we both grew up there, but I know my heart belongs to the west.

I’m Marching In

Not the most memorable Seinfeld quote, but who can’t give a little chuckle at the thought of Elaine telling Jerry “I’m marching in”

Elaine: Well, guess what I’m doing. I’m going to Mr.Pitt’s, and I am telling him that I am quitting.

Jerry: So that’s it? You know, I never even met the guy.
Elaine: I’ve had enough. I am marching in.
Jerry: You’re marching in?
Elaine: I’m marching

Jerry: Hey, Elaine’s quitting.
George: Really?
Elaine: I’m marching in.
George: Huh. I’ve done the march in. Best feeling in the world.
Jerry: How about the march out?
George: Not as good. You realize all the money you’re losing.

I am feeling a bit nervous. It has been nearly 10 years I have been at this job. I am sure people think I am a lifer at this point. But change is good.

Today is my day. I’m marching in!

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