Hitting the Ground Running

We made it home.  Not much to today other than drive, drive drive.  So we’ll conclude with he trip data.

The plotted route looks like this. 

Three weeks to drive west, four days to drive back east.  6083 miles driven in all.  Time on the road, 58 days, or eight weeks and two days.

We got home late this afternoon, hoping for a little R&R after driving nearly 4 days straight.  But it was not to be.  Deb had put a load of laundry in the wash and when it was finished, into the dryer.  She called up the stairs asking me to come down and look at the dryer.  It was not working.  So my R&R time was spent taking the dryer apart and putting the belt back on, which had somehow gotten jammed in the eight weeks we were gone and had come off when I tried to start it up.

Maybe it was the dead chipmunk I found in the dryer vent.  Maybe not.  But, somehow, dead chipmunks and long road trips are starting to form a pattern.  At least this one was in a location where it couldn’t get into the house, even though it already technically was in the house.  Once I cleaned out the vent and figured out how to put the belt back on, we were back in business.