Home Again, Home Again

We had a good trip home from Bristol. The traffic was generally light and, though rain was forecast, all we encountered was a few sprinkles.

I-81 was good until we got around Roanoke where the truck traffic was incredible. Every time we crested a hill, we could see two lanes full of trucks as far as we could see. The speed limit was 65 and most of the trucks were doing around 70. The problem was there was no consistent flow to the traffic. That was probably due to the hills (I-81 runs between the Blue Ridge and the Appalachian Mountains) causing the truck speeds to vary a good deal. It took us about 15 miles to get through the congestion.

The scenery was very nice, though I am sure it is much nicer in early summer or fall when the leaves are on the trees. It was nice to travel through an area we had not seen previously, or had seen it so long ago we couldn't remember.

We arrived home about 3:15 after a stop at the grocery store to pick up milk and orange juice. It took us about half an hour to unpack the car and get everything in the house. It sure is nice to be home again.

This time around, we were gone for 18 days and put over 4300 miles on the car. We traveled through nine states and stayed at nine different lodging places. We haven't counted the T-shirts and shot glasses yet, but we have a few. We also haven't gotten on the scales yet, but I know our time in New Orleans and Natchitoches couldn't have helped any there. We had a great time, saw a lot of interesting people and places and identified locales for future travels. Now to get all those pictures into a slide show.