Home, sweet home. It’s so nice to be here! Of course I enjoy traveling, but there’s no replacement for that feeling you get when everything around you is familiar and in its proper place, and you can only feel that way at home.
We traveled the whole distance (640.2 miles) from Vashon Island to home in one day, doing it in a little over 11 hours, including rest stops and meals. And along the way, I had the thought that if this had been 50+ years ago, we certainly wouldn’t have been able to jump in a car and blithely travel such a distance. If it had been 1950, we would have taken the car to a service station and told them of our plans. The car would have been examined carefully for defects and fresh oil and lubricants added. The tires would have been checked to make certain they would go the distance. The car would have been washed and all of the windows would be cleaned, inside and out. We would have bought maps for each state we would travel through and made plans for every stop along the way. If we had belonged to AAA back then, we would have called the local office and arranged for them to deliver a custom made trip map to us.
Yesterday? I didn’t even look under the hood and the drive itself was a piece of cake! Just follow the trucks… and taking the ferry from Tahlequah to Point Defiance was the only slow section. And what’s the deal with the ferry crew? They sure are a snotty bunch! Maybe it was my California license plates?
And now that we’re back home we will have just a few days to get ourselves ready for another trip, a short one. We’re going up to Susanville on Saturday for the Bizz Johnson marathon (Sunday) and should be back home on Monday. After that we have no immediate plans for travel and I’m sure our cat will thank us for that.
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