We Are Home!

The trip-o-meter said we logged ~7,100 miles on this two month trip.  We saw a lot of territory, that's for sure.  We now are home until it's time to go away for the winter!  

The trip from Elko today was just long and boring.  No other way to describe it.  It seemed to take forever.  We stopped in Winnemucca for lunch and fuel.  We encountered some heavy smoke from fires around Fernley and I just saw an alert that I-80 is now closed both ways in that area because the smoke is so dense.  Here in Sparks it was 93 when we arrived and the air is smokey.

The RV is parked at the Sparks Marina RV Park. (Wow, the park is full) - we've never seen so many people there.  We were quite fortunate to get a site for two nights over the holiday. We grabbed meds, toothbrushes, computers, food from the fridge, Maggie's food and bed, and came home for the evening.  We will go back in the morning and begin the task of getting the rest of the stuff and prepping for storage. The RV being so new, fortunately we haven't gotten it too dirty!  

Maggie was so happy to be in her house and yard!  She ran around like the Tasmanian Devil for 15 minutes - through every room, in and out the back door, under the dining room table, until she finally gave out.  Her tongue was dragging on the floor when she was done.

We came home to find our problem neighbor had parked across our drive way.  Rog told one of his kids to get their dad and get that piece of junk moved.  He did come out right away and do it.  Oh, it's got the potential to be a very long summer dealing with him.

We also came home to an immaculately clean yard and deck thanks to the neighbor on the other side.  The mail was stacked neatly on the dining room table, my plants outside were all alive and thriving, and it was wonderful not coming home and having the pressure to get out in the yard to clean it up.  She went way above and beyond.  She said it was "fun."  Sure.   She really is a great neighbor.  

So, signing off for now.  I'll be back to posting probably the last week of October as we get ready for leaving again.  It's been a fun two months.  This was the trip that we had said would be the deciding factor on whether we continued.  I guess since we bought a new RV we are going to continue roaming the country for as many more years as we can.