Look, do Dan and Janice talk about the laundromat for the entire episode? Yes, yes they do.

But it was a really great laundromat. And not even because it was located next to a dispensary called “The Bud Depot.”

When you travel, doing laundry really lets you see a town in a way that the people that live there do. In this case? With a wall of books, another wall of nonfunctional dryers slowly being covered in stickers, and a surprisingly clean bathroom, it’s pretty amazing.

Grab your bag of dirties, grab a bag of quarters, and join us at the laundromat.

Dan’s out with a friend from Denver when he discovers an increasingly urgent series of text messages from Janice: The power’s out at the trailer!

Mistakes were made. Mistakes involving trying out the space-age wonder called the combination microwave/convection oven while maybe running the air conditioning a little too hard.

This probably wouldn’t be a problem if anyone knew where the circuit breakers were. But guess what?

Look, nobody claimed to know what they were doing.

The quest for power is on!

Dan’s working out of the tiny library in this two-street town and Dan and Janice sit by the banks of the rushing St Vrain river to discuss the many times they’ve used libraries on their travels.

That is, they would if they weren’t interrupted by tubers floating by—and coming on shore. And did one of them say something about a snake?

But back to libraries: They’re great!

It’s a move day and while they’re only traveling a half hour away, Janice and Dan find themselves running late with park rangers circling. In the sprint to move, they realize something: They’re learning.

Not a lot, but at least a little.

Of course, on arriving in an idyllic city park campground Lyons, Colorado, they realize they have to back in to the space. Can Janice back the trailer in? Did Dan break anything on the rush out of the previous campsite?

MMMMaybe.

Welcome to week four of The Hitch!

Mistakes were made. A weekend trip to one of the biggest water parks in America has left Dan with a bruised rib. Was the teenaged staff to blame?

Oh most definitely not, just a bunch of full-grown adults making bad decisions. What else is new?

Look: When you ride a novelty water slide that ends in rooms full of robot dinosaurs, don’t you want as many people in your tube with you? OK sure, maybe there are a lot of signs warning against it, but what’s the worst that could happen?

Like a lot of life, that tube had two speeds: Dragging bottom or hauling ass. Hop on in—there’s plenty of room.

Last year Janice joined a club: breast cancer. It’s a club nobody wants to be in, but once you’re in, sharing stories with other members is crucial to making it through.

Today was one of those days, as Janice and Dan and the kids met up with another family that’s lived through the hell of breast cancer. That gets them talking about the year they’ve survived and gets Janice reflecting on what it’s like making the transition from cancer patient to cancer survivor.

Plus, today was the day The Hitch was released into the wild (uploaded outside a library near midnight) and it was Friday the 13th. What could possibly go wrong.

Join Dan & Janice outside the trailer for once, as the unrelenting heat finally relented for an evening! Instead of huddling on their bed, they sit around the picnic table at dusk to tell you this:

That tin can they named Evangeline? Now they’re also calling it “home.”

It helps that things have gotten very domestic: they’re commuting in every day, Dan’s getting dropped at a library to do his job, Janice is visiting family. It’s not a vacation, it’s just life.

Sometimes, that’s enough.

Holy crap it is hot. Every day Janice & Dan have been in Colorado it has topped 100 degrees and while the AC is (thankfully) working in the trailer, everything else is really starting to heat up. Sure, it might be a dry heat but so is your oven on full blast.

Living in a campground that’s cooking under an unrelenting sun brings in some odors. And some of them are starting to come from the trailer itself.

Plus, the whole family beats the heat by going bowling and that gets Janice & Dan thinking back to how they first met. You want their origin story? It involves Mexican wrestling, cuts of meat, and bowling.

Three weeks on the road and Janice and Dan have settled into a real routine now. He’s working, she’s heading out with the kids. Even the dog is heading to day care!

It’s all starting to feel really… normal.

But of course, when you’re recovering from Cancer, there’s a lot of “new normals” to contend with and Janice and Dan break down all the normals they’re learning to live with.

There’s been a lot of upheaval, both chosen and unchosen, and learning to find “normal” again is part of the adventure these folks are on.

Some days are pretty great, other days you find mystery poop smeared on your trailer cushions.

There’s no nice way to put it folks: Dan and Janice find themselves embroiled in POOPGATE. It's not a controversy they want to be involved in, but here we are.

Not only is there mystery poop, but Janice took a firm hit to the head from a broken awning before coffee and everyone had to go to Walmart. Twice.

It was not a good day, but they share it with you.