Home sweet home
We rolled in to the Bubba compound at approx. 10:45 PM last night, 6489 miles and 20 days and almost exactly 12 hours
after our departure on May 24th. What a great trip. The exhaustion is setting in, though. And coming east through so many time
zones so fast is the equivalent of jet lag.
Our house is still here, everything appears to be intact, and there wasn't
anything rotten in the refrigerator. I was afraid the grass would be knee high and that we'd have a neighborhood association
notice on the door. But apparently it didn't rain too much and it's not nearly as bad as I expected. Although it's pretty bad, and
the gardens are all overgrown with weeds and need some judicious pruning, especially the herb garden.
It's hard to recap,
or even remember right now, all the places we've been and the sights we've seen. By my count, we were in 14 states, visited nearly
a dozen state and national parks, including two we had missed on previous trips out west (Yosemite and Arches), and visited two
presidential library/museums (one Democrat and one Republican -- how's that for bipartisanship?). And we finally drove the Pacific
Coast Highway, which was something we always wanted to do.
We probably tried to cram too much into one trip without
allowing enough time to explore each stop. But you can sure see a lot of country on a road trip like this. Having the pupster
along also cramps your style a little, but she's a great traveling companion and she loves being on the road.
In the last
five years, we've been too busy trying to run a business and only took three vacations. One was a side trip from a business
meeting, one was the weekend trip to NYC last October for Mrs. Bubba's birthday, and now this one. A day or two before we left on
this trip, we were debating whether to fly to Paris for a few days instead. I haven't calculated the final cost of this adventure
yet, but it will probably come out about the same as going to Europe. Personally, I think this trip was a much better deal. Mrs.
Bubba concurs. America is a big, beautiful country. About the closest you could come to summing it up in words is this, I
think:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the
fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to
shining sea!OK, then.
Mon Jun 13 12:08
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