Home from our ten-week Northeast Trip

We have been home for a week from our ten-week Northeast Tour – at least I have been home a week. We got home Wednesday, November 05 at 10A (52 hours after leaving College Park, MD) and by 4P we had the RV unpacked, cleaned, winterized and in storage. Dale left two days later to join the MN deer hunting relatives; he went first to Paul’s and the two of them drove to Perham. (They do not hunt - just hang out and play poker, etc.) During that trip a deer rifle bullet hit our Saturn; they think it happened while they were driving home. It missed where Paul was sitting – but barely. As you can see in the first photo the bullet hit only a few inches behind the passenger seat. The second photo shows the small entry hole on the outside of the car.

While Dale was gone I drove over to visit Cal & family (no photos). I enjoyed playing lots of games with Holly & Caleb. I am impressed with how well Caleb (first grade) can now read. Had a great visit and brought home the mail that had been fwdd/collecting at Cal’s.

Since getting home I have been doing laundry/bedding and organizing and email – and lots of online reading. It is one of the at home luxuries I enjoy getting back to – good internet access. Another luxury is watching TV and movies.

On the road Internet access was intermittent and usually coincided with fun site-seeing or visiting; it was easy to get out of the email habit. And of course I got very few emails so it reinforced my conclusion that everyone else is also too busy for email. Now that I am home I really do not have any good excuse for not keeping in touch and updating my blog except there isn’t much to talk about except the weather. And at home the weather doesn’t matter.

So I am looking forward to and planning future fun. My main project this week has been Tom’s wedding cruise. Yes, Tom is getting married October 2009 to Kathleen Bledsoe – whose family we met this trip in Quebec City, Quebec. They live in Quebec and we spent a wonderful week there in September. Tom and Kathleen got engaged last Valentine’s Day (’08) and their wedding will be on a Freedom of the Seas Cruise Ship.

Next I have to start thinking about the holidays.