Monday, Arriving Home (5/5/14)

Monday.  We got up on Arizona time, even though we were 20 miles or so from the Arizona border, and we only gained one hour yesterday.  But I was anxious to get home, and when Joe opened one eye, I got him on the move.  We had scoped out our options for this morning, so we knew we were going back to Kranberries (which was very good) for breakfast, and across the street to fuel, and then straight up that same street to Highway 70, which would take us into Arizona.  We had all that done by 7:20 Arizona time!  We crossed the Arizona state line at 7:55, moving right along.

 We drove for a couple more hours, then Joe was really getting tired (after getting up so early) and his hip was hurting, so we stopped at the casino in Globe and he took a nap while I checked out the slot machines.  But after just an hour, I came back out, and he had just gotten up, so off we went again.  (I donated $15 to the Indians here).

We stopped at the final fuel stop just 1 1/2 miles from the house, so we unhooked the car and I drove on to the house.  Home Sweet Home!  It was a welcome sight!  It was 1:00 so we got our miles in in good time today.  By the way, we paid $3.339 in Lordsburg, NM this morning for gas, and at this last stop the price was $3.479. 

 We took a couple loads in, then rested up to go to Kaylee's basketball game at 4:45.  She has one more game after this, but at least we got home in time to see her play.  She's no. 12 below, the last girl in the first picture, and she scored 2 points.  (They lost badly).  We sat all the way up on the top bleacher so I didn't get very good pictures.

 We stopped for dinner on the way home, and were happy to call it a day.  We changed into our jammies and I seriously considered going to bed at 7:30 (it would have been 10:30 in Indiana), but managed to stay up.  Then Cody stopped by, and we are always happy to see him so that woke us up a little.  But we were in bed by 9:30, and our bed felt mighty good.

We need to have a sign painted on the back of our RV -- like those ones on trucks that says "Stops at Railroads" or "Makes Frequent Stops."  Ours needs to say "Makes Frequent Left Turns Out of Right Lane."  (I'm pretty sure he learned that move from Collins.)  Might take some of the shock off the faces of the drivers behind us from time to time.

Oh well, we made it home safely, the tire held up, and weather was great all the way home except for a little wind, and we saw some wonderful sights. A total of 3,883 miles -- 1,765 to Indiana and 2,118 returning home, and we did the return one day shorter, thanks to Joe putting in two 400+ days.  A good trip.  I haven't had the nerve to add us the gallons of gas, but I'll post that in one last post.