We were up early and on the road a little before 6 a.m. It was an uneventful ride back to Jackson. We have made this drive so often that we are very familiar with the sights so I either played Sudoku on my little hand held or played games on the computer. I was so ready to be back home!!!
We arrived around 12:30 and Carol was here to greet us. Hot, hot, hot here, but good to be home. I rather felt like a stranger in my own home - when I went to get stuff out for a drink, or things in the kitchen, I had to stop and think where they might be!!
We spent the next several hours unloading the car, unpacking suitcases and just
stacking the boxes we did not want to deal with (which was most of them). Who wants to handle flannel sheets, down comforters, fleece blankets and winter clothes when it is close to 100 outside???? NOT ME!!!!
We also spent a lot of time on the phone letting people know we are finally home!!! E.T. is finally home!!!!
Looking back on the trip....I guess I have learned some things....
First of all...basic facts....
We left MS on May 21 and returned Aug. 11.
We put 7,400 miles on the truck
7,250 miles on the RV
Maybe it is not a good idea to turn me loose for 11 weeks with 2 digital cameras and ways to unload pictures so I can take more....I have 5,256 digital images in my laptop from this trip and will be adding some more when Barb Grainger sends me a DVD w/ some pictures to fill in for the ones I lost when I damaged the SD cards!!
Jerry has about 20 hours of video in addition to about 15 rolls of 35 mm film!!
It would have been better to have a tow vehicle. There were lots of places we would have ventured that the RV could not go.
We needed to spend longer than one night in most places.
Was sorry we did not have enough time to go fishing (plus fishing in AK is full of LOTS of strange and specific rules about where you can and can't fish, and the kind of license you need, etc...)
I should have taken more time to visit art galleries and craft stores...I love seeing all the things people can create.
I wish I had time to paint - it was all I could do to take pictures and record the places we were seeing...(of course I have fun with cameras also!)
In fact I wish I could have spent at least 24 hours in most places so I could get the sun and light in different positions.
I did not see TV or have much access to news for 50 days in the RV. A couple of times we tuned in when we were in Frank and Barb's RV. I didn't miss it.
We should have taken some music CD's to listen to on the road....no radio stations in the wilderness.
I should have loaded pix onto computer each day from both cameras, even when there were not so many pictures to load....
Wish I had taken pix of us getting to STL, getting to Piedmont and then finally getting home. I guess once I got back in familiar territory, the cameras could finally leave my hands.
Our world is an awesome creation and all the parts that I have seen have their own characteristics and personality, but they are all part of the whole.
It was a great trip and I don't know how it could have been any shorter, but I also know that I was gone a long time from home....what a dilemma...
I guess this is the official end of the blog for this trip....it has taken many hours and longer than I would have wished post trip to finish all this up, but I am glad I have persevered and finished it. The next step is to print out the text, order copies of the pictures I posted and put it all into an album. I told John I had a few suggestions for Google and blog posting.....wish they had one part of it dedicated to travel and vacations and there were easier and better formats for including pictures!
It's nice to be with friends and family. We had such a good time with Frank and Barb and then with Nana and our family in St. Louis and at Piedmont.
Our next adventure is a trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico in October for the Balloon Fiesta. We have been before but are anxious to go again. Jerry's sister Carol and her very good friend are going with us and we will also go to Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Monument Valley and Santa Fe. Have not decided whether to do a blog or not, but will keep you posted.
All for now and thanks for traveling with us through the blog. It meant a lot to us to know that our friends and family back home could tune in and kind of keep up a bit with us. I hope you enjoyed reading it half as much as I enjoyed putting it together (in spite of lack of internet connections everywhere!!!) Happy trails!!! Linda and Jerry
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