Adventure 642: Home Sweet Home

Dropped Frac off for winterizing, a bitter-sweet event.

Thanks to traveling mercies, we made it home unscathed after 22 days on the road covering 3,660 miles. In total, we've been blessed with six adventures totaling almost 30,000 miles. We had already decided not to travel South this winter due to in part to Covid concerns, which really don't affect us when we travel. However, as dedicated foodies, we enjoy experiencing local fare. These days eating in restaurants is problematic in our view, so we've decided that traveling wouldn't have the same appeal. Right now, our biggest dilemma is how to handle the holidays. Usually we get together for fine meals and family togetherness. That, too, is problematic this year. We'll see. But back to our fall trip. When the smoke descended, we changed our plans because we're flexible people. The only place in the country not under siege seemed to be the midwest, so naturally we headed for Kansas. We spent a wonderful ten days visiting Judy's sisters. The weather was fabulous: warm, low humidity. The company was fabulous: Rod, Karen, Arlene, Wib. We saw some new country, and we revisited some old stops. We stopped to see good friends, and we made it safely home yesterday. As I always do, I used the adrenaline from the road to wash the trailer and the truck because sadly, we're done for this season. We finished readying Frac for the winter this morning, and I took the trailer to the Airstream dealer for winterizing and a check-up. On a sad note, the Wiley Cager ended up trouncing me in the overall cribbage standings (Since my fear is that we'll all be Republicans soon, I need to take a page from their playbook and return to cheating. After all,  as a rational man, I can convince myself that everyone does it, that it's just part of the game). I would do that, but I couldn't live with myself.  We were glad to see our home sweet home. We think we live in heaven, and we haven't yet found a place that  would make our life better, so in that sense life is good, especially today.

In our mail bag was our grand daughter, Emily's birthday present. I think she likes it.

Frac looking sweet after a cleaning in and out.

Home sweet home, on the road and off.

Fric, also cleansed of three weeks of road grime.

Son, Steve and grand daughter, Sarah. Two more reasons it's good to be home.

Falcon says, "Welcome home Mimi and Poppops.