Redlands and home

Redlands, CA and the end of the line
The RV is now back in Redlands and we are in our base home. The odometer now reads miles and I know that somewhere I recorded the mileage before I left on the trip but I’ll be darned if I can find that now. I believe we have travelled about 12,000 to 15,000 miles but whatever it was it was great. We left with a full wallet and gas tank and now have an empty wallet and ½ a gas tank full of fuel, but I would not hesitate a moment to do it again.
Along the way we met people who could not comprehend why or how we could be gone from home so long. Life is full of choices and for those who asked how we could do it that is not the choice they should make. For me it was the ideal choice to see the Alaska tundra, the Arctic ocean, the glaciers of British Columbia, the redwoods of northern California, the windswept beaches of Oregon, the rolling pastures of Wyoming, the plains and desert of South Dakota, the locks of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River, the places of my youth in Ontario, the art galleries of many of the cities we were in, the rushing water of Niagara Falls, the quaint towns and cities of Quebec, the fall colors of the Northeast, the history of places like Salem and Boston MA, the forests of the Smokey Mountains, the music of Branson, and the Emerald and Carlsbad Caverns.
I know that many will ask what was my favorite and I can only say that like your children they are all loved and although they are different you love them all.
It will be good to see Vera my daughter and Gabe her husband and of course Christopher and Caitlyn my two most beautiful and wonderful grandchildren. It will be a time for family now and the holidays to renew those times when we are all grateful for what we have and what has been given to us.
I will not post in this blog for some time to come as life will be just a monotonous, boring monotone of the same things happening over and over again. Then the next adventure will begin again next fall when we will head south this time to see the wonders of Central America. Yes for those of you who wish to listen in and read we will be going as far as Panama by RV if we can. I long to see more of this world before it is no longer possible for me to do so.
I hope that any of you who have read this found some humor and it has made your life a little richer for the time you have spent reading it. I have not in the past read any of the comments sent to me nor responded to them. It is not that I do not care but time does not permit me that luxury. I have all that I can do just to write the blog usually on a daily basis with all of the other things that need to be done on the trip. You to dear reader have adventures to lead and places to be and loved ones to hug before the day is finished.