Arrival

We’re home.  After travel spanning 46 days and 4478 miles, we’re back to the same place we started, but with lots of good memories and a t-shirt gained along the way.

Today we made our final stop before arriving home: three stores in Shipshewana, Indiana.  In addition to picking up a bunch of food supplies, there’s always something unexpected that we come away with.  The last couple of visits, we have found a large hunk of “mystery meat”, some sort of beef for really cheap.  We have chunked it up and used it for fajitas or for soup.  This time it was a 25-pound bag of chocolate chip cookie mix for ten bucks.  If you want to make up the whole thing at once, you need to add nearly  four pounds of butter and 2.5 dozen eggs.  Reminds me of the recipes I saw on the *Lexington* where they were literally feeding an army.  We also found a box of bacon burger patties at Yoder’s Meats.  Probably highly caloric and highly good.

The trip home was mostly through the rain, with temperatures just above freezing.  It took a couple of tries to get the RV up the sloped driveway as I had to stop in the middle to dump the waste tanks into the sewer cleanout in the front lawn.  I had to back down and take a run at it because of the accumulation of snow, something we haven’t seen in many weeks (and haven’t really missed).  We spent the remainder of the day winterizing the RV and unloading anything that would freeze.  We also had a pile of laundry to deal with and an even bigger pile of accumulated mail.

Overall, this was a fantastic journey, one with lots of fond memories.  Kind of makes one want to just hop back in the RV and take another one.  But we’ll be home for a while.  Lots of things needing attention here at home.