Utaventure

July started good 😏, or should I say typical for us ... we got back from California at 2AM on the 1st of July with the rental car we got for that trip. So far so good, however this was our second car of that trip, as the first one was broken into while we were in San Francisco (more about that in my future post of June 2018), and only upon arrival at home, we realised that we left the house keys in that first rental car 😬 Options like 'sleeping in the car on our driveway', or 'putting up our backpacking tents in the garden' crossed our minds, but both were not really appealing after a 12 hour drive! Luckily Jessica, our land lord, is a nurse who reacted on our message at 2AM in the morning, as she was just returning from a work shift.  Lucky us!! 😅  It sure felt great to sleep in our beds after all, that night! 3 Days later, on the 4th of July, our boys left for their annual summer trip to Belgium while the fireworks of Independence Day were lightening up the sk