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Home Sweet Home!

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After 33 days and 8,190 miles, we are home! Home sweet home, and we were welcomed by Hannah with flowers, supper ready, yard mowed, house clean, and hugs! Life is grand! Bear clicked right back into all the routines and started checking his chew treat hiding places. It is very good to be home after a wonderful adventure.  We have both decided there just can't be one favorite thing...each one was our favorite. However, if you can ever do it, drive down the Avenue of the Giants in Northern California. You will get to be in another dimension.  Almost Home at Niagara Falls! We detoured through Buffalo and stopped at Niagara Falls, just for a quick visit. Wow. Another "you just can't get it in pictures" experience for sure. Luckily, I researched where to park if one happens to be in an RV; it was a lovely 15-minute walk along amazing water.  We decided to hit the area around 7pm; it is open till 10pm. Yes, there were many people, but not wall to wall; it was fine. I'd ...
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Confirmed! We are outstanding in our field.

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Look closely...there we are in the Happy Breadbox Hen Wen...out...standing...in that field!  Need I say more?! It took us crossing four states to get there...Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and then Ohio, but we made it to the Evans Family farm where we stayed for a free night courtesy of Harvest Hosts.  Yes, outstanding, and a "pair-a -docs"!" Get it?  It was a long driving day, but there are things to see on the road!  Such as the town, Uranus. Uranus, with no disrespect to the planet...is being a bit disrespected in Missouri. I mean...we did see this set of signs...in neon:  Uranus... Uranus Fudge... The Best Fudge comes from  Uranus. Really? And no, we did not stop.  Speaking of "getting it," here is another thing I saw on the road. I just Love crows. Shout out to you Charlie! who loves crows, too! And don't get me started on drivers...whew. Yet when I think of the big picture... really, for all the cars, semis, trucks, vans, strange...
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In Oklahoma Visiting Family

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My sisters Susan, Gayle, and Frani treated us like the special prince and princess we want to be! We shared laughter, memories (this erupted way more laughter), good food, and adventures around Shawnee and Tecumseh Oklahoma.   Here are just a few...Marathon Yatzee game, pool party in Harrah, thrift shopping, and several stops at the Sonic. We got to catch up with spouses and kids...now grown adults, but I keep blocking that small point.  And... we watched The Long Long Trailer , a 1954 movie with Lucy and Desi Arnez right at the start of their careers. Imagine these two pulling a trailer across country...you just have to see it! John and I could relate! A big shout out to Mike of Susie and Mike for sharing his knowledge, skills, patience, and tools with John. The Happy Breadbox RV needed some fixin' and he was our hero! And by the way...that's one thing we say from Oklahoma..."I'm fixin' to..." It doesn't matter what it is...first, we get our fixin' en...
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PaPalo Duro lo Duro Canyon in Texas...Who Knew?

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Amarillo Texas surprised us in the form of Palo Duro Canyon State Park's beauty. It's huge beautiful! Never have a seen a sign for 10% grade...and lived to tell about it!  It is the second largest canyon in the United States...and you know number one! the second largest ...in Amarillo Texas, really! Palo Duro canyon is  about 120 miles long and 20 miles wide and  is up to 800 feet deep. I didn't see them all, but the information said there are four geologic  layers to be seen when descending 500 feet to the floor of the canyon. I couldn't look till we stopped! Heights, much height.   Here are pictures  we took, and some I grabbed from the web, because  the place was just too good for you to miss!  You can see the geologic layers! 
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Interesting and Funny Things We've Seen or Learned...So Far!

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The Great Idaho Potato Tour spotted in Washington state on tour. Is it real?  Check out the link if interested; we got a kick out of following it. The tour celebrates the potato, of course, but also raises money in small towns for businesses and non-profits.  And I bet you didn't know...if you're ever in Boise Idaho looking for an air B&B, yup you guessed it, you can stay inside a giant Idaho Potato House ! We are having fun, and you just never ever know what will be on the road with you! I really like looking up things connected to the phase "I wonder what..." Here is an example. For miles and miles we saw poles with orange striped paddles just standing out in fields with nothing besides nature to keep them company. Well, once in a while some fencing, but you know how snotty fencing can be... John wondered what they were. Lo and behold, they mark high pressure gas lines and point down to mark the spot where one is not, and I mean not, to dig. I found this stoc...
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Through Arizona and New Mexico

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We are veering East, headed to Oklahoma and visits with Marianne's family. Watch out sisters, big sister is headed your way!  And about the desert...when they say it's hot, just believe it. We camped in Patterson and Needles CA 111 to 114° and I'm not kidding. I could see the heat from the comfort of our air-conditioned happy breadbox RV; it had presence. And walking in it was something else, something dangerous and a reminder of the power of nature.  And it's not one desert, not one color or shape, or form...amazing. And on the miles and miles of flat stretches we would see miles long freight trains crossing the horizon and disappearing into...where?  (John saw one disappearing into a tunnel on the side of a mountain.)  I just loved seeing them.  In Needles CA we stayed at Feders River RV and Motel. The river was there, but the motel was out of commission because a pickup truck caught fire and they are waiting for insurance stuff to happen. I liked the place; t...
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Two Days in the Heat Dome ... and Gratitude

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For days I've followed the news of rain and more rain and flooding in the Northeast, especially Vermont. I didn't know what to do with all the emotions scrambled up with Florida's dumb as dirt curriculum decisions...  Then Emma Rianne sent us an image of her dog Elle contemplating life under a rainbow.  And, true, the world settled into a more hopeful balance...something about rain and rainbows ...or dirt dumb and new shovels. Then, I saw a sign at a cafe, and it moved me. Whomp!  That was a surprise; I don't care for signs telling me what to do. Sign:      " Live, Laugh, Love! " Me:          " More of your conversation would infect my brain."                             Apologies W.S.   Here is what the cafe sign said: Your job is the dream of someone unemployed. Your house is the dream of someone homeless.  Your smile is the dream of som...
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