We say it towards the end of every trip, but on a long trip, the horse can smell the barn. We were up early (5:30am) and headed out into the hot day, knowing we would drive through some very hot weather and dry landscape on our way home. We watched the landscape change from the Ponderosa Pines around Flagstaff to Cedars and grass to desert scrub to the driest we had seen in the whole trip once we crossed the Colorado River into California.
Today was mostly putting another 400 miles in which out of the nearly 8000 we had driven seemed like not very long. It was a hot and sunny day and we drove and drove and drove and drove and drove. Patti had downloaded compilations of Garrison Keillor Prairie Home Companion stories. This helped the time pass, but it was still a lot of driving.
It always felt good to cross the border into California, even though we knew it was still a long ways across the width of California to our house. We went along, enjoying what we could. And, ready to get home. We were pleased to pull in at Oceanside at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon. We pulled most of the stuff out of the car and started the process of settling in having been gone for 40 days. It’s good to be back home again.
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