THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

Thursday, Oct. 25

Yesterday morning we left New Paris, OH a little after 8 and made it home about 6PM yesterday. It was a long day but a good one. It was raining a little when we left but the sun was out by noon. The trip was just short of 2 months, we left on Aug. 29 and were back on Oct 24.



To look back, the trip doesn't seem like it was nearly that long. (maybe to Glenda) It does seem like a blur. When I think about something on the trip, sometimes I have to think for a while to remember where we were. Maybe it is old age. Ha!



We drove and put 4,044 miles on the motor home and about 3,500 miles on the car. The first month we used commuter trains and subways so didn't use the car much but made up for it the second month.



Of the cities we visited, I would say we enjoyed New York City the most. Each city did have it's own character but New York had the most characters, a lot more. Ha



The fall colors were out in abundance everywhere we went. We made it to the Canadian border twice and we crossed once so was able to see the colors from Canada down in three locations. Just about everywhere the colors where at or near peak. Not until we got back to the Midwest did the colors seem to be washed out. It may be from the type of weather we have had this year.



I hope you found this blog somewhat informative. We saw a lot of interesting sites and tried to convey a little of that here. This is my first attempt at doing this -- I hope it wasn't too dry. My EXECUTIVE SECRETARY did review, correct and approve most of the blogs. I didn't hear of very many complaints about them from her so maybe they weren't too bad.



This trip is something I have wanted to do for many, many years and was finally able to accomplish it. Old age has it's privileges as they say. Ha! There are a lot of other areas of the country to explore and they are on my list as well. They will have to wait their turn.

The first big job we had after arriving home was sorting through two months of mail that the boys had picked up for us and left on the kitchen table. We got the waste basket and the paper shredder out and started in on it. Couldn't believe all the catalogs and magazines we had collected!

A big thank you goes out to Scott and Mike for picking up the mail and checking on things; thank you to Dave and Jan for keeping an eye on the place; and thank you Harry and Sue for keeping the yard mowed for us!!!

We would like to thank everyone for keeping an "eye" on us. Larry and Glenda



Note: This will be our last blog for now. Thanks!