Started our day with breakfast at Cracker Barrel. And even though we camped on a parking lot, we still had some nice scenery - a dogwood tree right beside us in full bloom.
Temperature in high 50s today but we've had sprinkles off and on. We crossed the Wabash River into Indiana at 9:30, and fueled and dumped our tanks at the Flying J in Haubstadt, Indiana. Gas was $2.259, better than expected since Indiana is one of the states that usually have highest gas prices. Oklahoma and Missouri had greened up and had some blooming trees and flowers, but Indiana fields are still brown, just a few Easter daffodils blooming, and the rivers are all flooded, all typical spring events back here.
We arrived at Lucille's house at 12:10 Indiana time (we lost another hour, now on Eastern Daylight time). Mike Froeschke met us here, and helped us get the RV set up. He had already turned things on in the house, so we are in good shape. Dixie and Jim are bringing Lucille down on Wednesday, so we have a couple days on our own. Maybe we will try to rest us from our marathon trip.
We traveled 1629 miles, basically in 3 days (2 half days and 2 full days), averaging 5.489. We fought wind for the first 3 days, and we pushed harder than usual so our gas mileage suffered. Fortunately, the average price was 2.213. Hopefully, when we head to Florida in 3-4 weeks, our mpg will go up and the average price will go down. We'll see. Last year's round trip to Indiana, we paid an average of $3.29 for gas, so we are paying quite a bit less this hope. Hope that lasts throughout the summer because we have many miles to go.
Rachelle stopped by with Clayton and Mallory for a visit. We had a nice visit with them, until they had to go to a Cub Scout meeting. So Joe and I headed in to Bobe's Pizza, a sure sign that we are back home. I had talked to Barbara in the afternoon, and she mentioned that she had a meeting tonight so we would get together tomorrow to work on reunion details. Funnily, her meeting (Home Ec, of all things) was at Bobe's Pizza, so I did get to see her today after all. We loved the pizza, brought back memories, then stopped by Walmart for a light bulb for the RV. Got back to the RV and Joe tuned in the TV so he got to watch part of the NCAA final game. I went to bed, and FINALLY got a good night's sleep. Woke up to thunderstorm and train sounds, another sure sign we are home. But it's not cold, temperature in the low 60s.
We were very fortunate to make this trip without incident, a lot of things could have gone wrong. It was pretty stressful for me, so I'm very glad to be here, off the road for a few weeks, and Joe healing. Now for reunion and family time!
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