2008 – Week 25
Tuesday, October 14, 2008:
Today was drive, drive and drive some more! We started off the day flushing the holding tanks so that when we arrive home tomorrow, it will not be such a chore. Before we started north on I-81, we refilled with gas and then had a great breakfast at Perkins Pancake House. I have suffered from a lack of omelets over the last month so we fixed that problem while Susie had a poached egg and pancakes. We also had orange juice and coffee (the coffee wasn’t very good!).
We drove north for 200 plus miles with Susie and I splitting the driving. During the morning, Todd Johnson called us to tell us of the passing of Gail after a long and surely painful time with breast cancer. She was truly a wonderful lady and will be missed greatly by all she touched. We stopped for gas, and Susie made lunch to eat as we continued north. We passed one of those large blue signs that stated we had entered the Chesapeake Bay Drainage and felt that we were definitely in home territory. We stopped at one campground a bit south of Winchester VA, looked around and decided that it wasn’t for us. We continued a few miles further and found another. We stopped at 5:15pm after having driven 346 miles, sandwiched between 18-wheelers. We now have 72 miles to get home but didn’t have the energy to continue. Anyway, we would have arrived home after dark.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008:
It was a lousy night’s sleep. The RV Park was on a by-pass around Winchester VA, and it was noisy when we went to sleep and noisy again when we awoke. We were very grumpy when we awoke. We had breakfast and showers and left at 10:15am. We managed to miss a turnoff and had to go a few more miles and make a u-turn to get back on track. I-70 at Frederick MD was a mess; down to one lane as they are widening the road. It doesn’t seem that they have made much progress since we last passed through in April. We eventually pulled into the house at 12:45pm, and backed up the trailer to the house and unloaded. We returned the trailer and decided to have dinner out and then crashed into bed at an early hour as we tried to decompress. Our house-sitter, Paula Moore, had the place looking wonderfully, a real accomplishment considering the amount of rain, thunderstorms and power outages she experienced over the summer.
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Summary Facts:
We left home on April 29, 2008
We returned home October 5, 2008
We traveled 17,779 miles in those 170 days
We spent 28 days in CA, 58 days in the State of Washington, 51 days in Oregon and 13 days in TX.
We revisited three areas we did in 2003: Guadalupe NP (TX), Davis Mountains (TX) and Big Bend NP (TX).
The hottest place was Yuma NM with a temperature 109 degrees.
The coldest place was Colfax WA where it snowed on June 10.
We traveled the road across the north end of Yosemite NP the first day it was cleared of snow.
We could not revisit Glacier NP in mid-June at as the Going-to-the Sun Road was still closed from the winter snows.
We saw Orcas on 6 of the 8 days we were in the San Juan Islands WA
IT WAS A HELLUVA GREAT TRIP!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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