We Are Home - November 4!

Once we started heading west, we just got more and more focused on getting past the long Texas trek and then we were so close that we just kept going. So we made it in time to vote. The next task was to unload and clean so this photo of us in the driveway is our final shot for the trip. Thanks for sharing the fun with us. These 11 weeks have been a highlight of our lives. Some trip statistics might interest a few of you:
8337 - miles the motorhome was driven (hauling the Jeep)
2000 - miles the Jeep was driven (not attached)
$1200 - amount spent on overnight parks
$3388 - amount spent on diesel fuel
$3.99/$2.65 - Highest/Lowest price for diesel fuel
15 - the number of nights we stayed in friends' driveways
6 - the number of nights we stayed in either Interstate Rest Stops or WalMart parking lots

Overall, I'd say 11 weeks of fun for less than a 12 day Mediterranean cruise isn't so bad.

Homeward Bound

By November 1 we had stayed in WalMart parking lots the last two nights in Mississippi and Tyler, TX. We should be home by Wednesday, the day after elections. We find we really appreciate WalMart's willingness to let RVs park overnight. Here we are in the morning in Mississsippi.
We spent a few hours taking the driving tour of the Vicksburg MS civil war park*Nov 1) where Grant's victory started the shift towards Union successes. We drove the 16 mile loop which is quite an esxperience to see - what all those troops put up with (both sides). Seeing the site, I can now understand how that one position was so important to both sides and really turned the tide of the war. It was going on the same days as Gettysburg. (they surrendered on July 4, 1863).

On October 31 we started driving toward home and it is hard to stop once you do that. California, here we come!