After being cooped up in the van for almost 14 hours today, I am glad to say we have arrived home, safe and sound! We drove away from our hotel in the pouring rain (again!) this morning just before 8:00. But by about noon, the clouds and rain disappeared, we entered Illinois, and had clear blue skies the rest of the way home. It was really soggy all through Arkansas and the tiny bit of Missouri we drove through. It was obvious they'd had a lot of rain already, and were forecasted to have another solid week of it.
We finished up listening to our Daniel Silva novel on CD this afternoon. The book was interesting all the way through, and the reader did such an excellent job!
We stopped for only one meal today, in the early afternoon, and were just too tired to care about eating the rest of the way home. We did grab a drink and a small ice cream cone to enjoy as we drove, but that was about it. And after unloading the van tonight, we grabbed a piece of toast and tried out the excellent peach pecan jam Nick and Rachel made for us ... yum!
Since we made no side trips to Corpus Christi or to Galveston this time, our mileage was right around 3900 miles. Last fall, it was closer to 5000 because we went south to Corpus Christi and also drove up to Minneapolis to see Adam and Emily. We are going to visit Adam, Emily (and baby Jeremiah) as a separate trip this time.
We have a ton of pictures to upload to my computer. I'm going to try to look through them in the next few days and then post some of the better ones I haven't shown you yet. But for now, good night!
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Glad you got home safely, Carol. You must be tired. 14 hours is a long drive! Talk to you soon.
Bob got a job at an Apple store selling computers and helping customers - part-time and not good pay, but we are thankful anyway for a little extra money coming in. They got papers on their house and are going to ask the bank if they can do a short sale. We are buying Dad's house officially. That means we agreed to a price. Now we can start - but when? We are so busy!
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