Actually a little more than that since I last put digits to keyboard…. I wrote about how a trip ends in two ways and that’s a big part of the reason I haven’t posted. I was last heard of in Colorado Springs about to head for Kansas and the inevitable wind that never seems to stop, which accounts for all the wind turbines I’m sure - there are certainly a lot of them out there, so perhaps they are a little more popular than we may have been led to believe. I hear Texas could use some more though.
A lot of last minute changes in the schedule, it seemed I could really stretch my days out some more and cut a day off the trip, so many phone calls later, I was set to make Salina, KS the first night, Granite City, IL (St Louis) the next, and finally Buckeye Lake, OH, the last stop before home. Which of course isn’t what happened at all…. Temperatures were rising to the levels I’d seen in Flagstaff and Zion, but in the high desert, once the sun goes down, the temperatures swiftly follow, making for cool sleeping conditions in my little cubby. Not so much when the altitude is only 2,000’ or less. Salina was OK, low 60’s, but when I got to Granite City it was 98 degrees, no shade and 70’s forecast that night - heat and humidity. A quick phone call got me into a hotel instead where I rethought the rest of my trip. Buckeye Lake became a hotel in Cambridge, OH and then I headed north to a friends home in State College.
Turns out I was rather more worn out than I realized, so I stayed an extra night and arrived home on Friday with enough time to clean out the camper and deliver it back to its home the next day. Eighteen days on the road, twelve nights in the camper, sixteen days of continual driving 6-8 hours a day, 5,800 miles in all…
It’s taken a couple of days just to get the road out of my head, and try to get back into a regular sleep cycle and catch up with the routine of life again. And I have an awful lot of pictures to edit and process, so this trip ain’t done yet…