What can I say?  We made it home at exactly 2 PM day before yesterday, on time to the minute.  

We turned in the drive and it sure looked good.

It was a good feeling to come down the drive and we anxiously awaited seeing the home place.

We were met by good friends, flags around the circle from all the states we had visited and a finish line with a checkered flag!

Flags flying for each state we had visited - some 25 or so.

The finish line and checkered flag.  Joe raced across the finish line to applause and hugs and good wishes for a trip well done. 

After everyone left, there we were, at home, with no place to go.  It really seemed strange as we went inside and sat down in our own little chairs in our own little house and thought, we don't have to look at a map to check our route for tomorrow.  It was all a little strange.  

The house smelled musty from being closed up for so many months, dust lay heavy on the furniture and there was a pile of mail to be gone through and a room with packages that we had sent home along the way.  Joe spent several hours sorting mail. Several friends come over during the afternoon and evening, to welcome us home and to hear about the trip while others called.

Yesterday morning, a crew from WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, came over to interview us for the evening newscast.  Joe is an old hand at the interview business now and does a great job of it.  It still gives me the "willies". 

We've been spending the day getting caught up on loose ends, like a little grocery shopping and getting my driver's license renewed.  It had expired while we were on the trip.  There are a ton of dirty clothes to be washed and just general cleanup to be done.

I'm glad to be home but really do miss being on the road and seeing something new every day.  I guess you could say I am experiencing "post-vacation funk".  It happens every time we go on a long trip.

We'll still have a few posts yet before we call this trip "over and done".