Home Sweet Home!

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 say, go off season or early or late in the day. but really, there are so many things to sign up for and do, you could stay a couple days and not get it all in. Maid of the

Mist takes you to the Canadian side and back, and you don't need a passport. We just walked around. And said "Wow" a lot. Bear tried to make friends with a garter snake who was having none of it.

Walking back, we saw a lone seagull sitting on a log in the Niagara River that runs from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Jonathan Livingston Seagull...remember that one?

Niagara Falls - Best we could do photogenically!

And one more funny thing I want to remember from this trip. Bear (aka LaLa) is a Ventner. Yup, you heard me. Ventner.

And I know you have heard of a Vintner, the wise about wine folks, who know all sorts of fascinating things about wine. You might even say they focus on wine. Vintner.

LaLa the Bear is a Ventner...and his focus is...vents. Every once in a while, for no reason I can figure out, the spirit moves him to come stick his nose in the vents...and so he does...with focus. A birddog spotting a quail could not be any more focused...and I have the evidence: