The Last Leg of Our Journey

Friday, October 19, 2012

The Last Leg of Our Journey

We were in bed shortly after 10pm last night. The weather radio had us/me expecting rain and high/damaging winds during the night. I brought the grass-like mat that we use to wipe our feet into the trailer when I made my last entry just so that the wind wouldn’t blow it away. I had a hard time getting to sleep. Once I heard the rain at about 10:40pm I rolled over and went to sleep.

This morning Tom was off to the wash house soon after 6am and I was making and storing things in the sleeping bags just minutes after that. As we were eating breakfast the rains came again. We waited for a long while before the rains slowed down. I went up to the wash house and when I came back they had almost stopped. We went into high gear to get everything stowed and/or hitched. By 9:18am we had made our last trip to the wash house and were on our way to the dumpster and recycling area and then out of there.

The sun was trying to burn off the fog as we left. It was making a valiant effort and it was succeeding. We were actually able to see shadows.

The highway took us up the Allegheny Range at Blossburg to an elevation of 2157 feet. The fog that was still around made it look as if we were in the clouds.

After about 100 miles of driving for the day and nearing lunch time we stopped for lunch and a “quick cat nap” for Tom and then we headed on down the highway again. The sun was out, and the colors were wonderful. As we neared White Haven the road seemed to be a little wet and it got wetter - wet enough to call it rain. And it did rain. We were hoping that we would drive out of the rain-making clouds as we drove south. We did.

We passed the 200 mile mark for the day and still had a little bit to go yet. And we were still in the sunshine.

We arrived home at 2:20pm to 2 green trees in our back yard. We didn’t miss the color on these trees yet. The house was cool but we didn’t turn the heat on yet. We’re hoping that someone miss-read the card that Tom filled out to have our mail held. They usually deliver it the day we come home, but it was not here. Maybe it will be delivered tomorrow.

Our entire trip was 3290 miles into Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont. Thanks for going along with us. It was fun.