Made it home
Leaving Breckenridge, we ascended to the Eisenhower Tunnel to beginning the decent into Denver. Trip was smooth all the way to Loveland. The visit with the Master’s clan
at Joan’s in Longmont was fun. There were a lot of stories told and old pictures shared. Sadly, we had to head back to our Rv and prepare for our homeward trip.
On Friday morning, we began our morning with a beautiful cool walk around the neighborhood. On the road by 8:30 just ahead of the worst traffic and heat. It seemed to take forever to get out of Colorado as we drove toward North Platte, NE. Miles and miles of flat farmland
interspersed with the pungent aroma of feeder lots. Finally, we see the Central Time Zone, a happy sign that we are getting closer to home.
From North Platte we drove on to Nebraska City and from there to St Charles, MO. The drive consisted of getting on the interstate and locking the cruise control on and then guiding the Rv down the road. If Tesla had offered me an auto pilot, he would not have been pleased with the easiest of all test. In fact, any monkey could have done it. Jan and I stopped in St. Charles several years ago and at that time we decided to come back and spend an extra day. St. Charles is a neat little historic town. Not only was it the capitol of Missouri
, during the time that the capital was being built in Jefferson City, it was also the beginning spot for Lewis and Clark on their exploration of the "Louisiana Purchase" in 1804. Now, the town is rather touristy, but still pretty, since the town has rebuilt
most of it to what it was like in the early 1800's along the river.
It seems that once we turn toward home, nothing is going to change our direction. It is either get-homeitus or the barn horse syndrome. Which ever, it hit us. On our stop in Clarksville, TN for our LAST night on the road, we called an old running buddy and family(Gerald and Darlene Koch)
from many years ago to say hello. Gerald was a fabulous runner from the mid 70's to the mid 90's. We always had fun with him and his family at each of our runs. After a brief visit, we went back for our final night, this trip, on the road.
Awakening and looking forward to our last day, we got things together and began our trek. No GPS was necessary for this leg.
Home now
and the unpacking and washing begins. This was a great trip and we saw a lot of the the West we had never seen. We had 3 solid weeks that during the day we saw no rain except for our first day between Dickson, TN and the Tennessee river. In fact, as we entered Tennessee, Jan pointed out clouds in front of us. We had not seen puffy white clouds on our trip.
We hope that later this summer we can get back out to, maybe, a cooler environment,