2024 travels are in the books. We departed our campground in Missouri at 0800 hrs this morning and headed northbound on Hwy 61, which is a beautiful chunk of concrete. There was hardly any traffic on it and that did not suck.
This was our view a good part of the day.
Soon we were so near Iowa you could see our mountains.... of gravel and sand LOL.
It was great to be back in our home State of Iowa, even though we were here a bit sooner than planned. That is OK, though. The name of the game is flexibility. The moto of our great United States Marine Corps is "Semper Fidelis" - always faithful. The moto of our United States Coast Guard is "Semper Paratus" - always ready! The moto I learned while serving over 42 years in the United States Air Force and Air National Guard is "Semper Gumby" - always flexible! Stuff happens. You have to be ready to "Improvise, adapt, and overcome". There is nothing more important than our health. So it was an easy decision to terminate our trip and head north to Iowa. Doreen will be connecting with her primary care physician early this week and coming up with a game plan.
And yes, Facebook deleted our post that explained our change in plans,. I am so very close to being totally done with this Communist platform. Their bullshit algorithms delete perfectly innocent posts for no reason. Social media or socialism media?
So we arrived at Griff's Valleyview RV Park at 1241 hrs after traveling 245 miles. We unhooked, leveled and then commenced with unloading. We took a full load home and then came back with the car and the truck, and then loaded them both completely. At home, we unloaded all that stuff and now we are D.U.N done. Doreen and I are both shot. But unfortunately there is no relief in sight. We snuck into to a site at Griffs only because someone vacated it for a few day, duration unknown. So tomorrow will be full speed ahead with the work I need to do on the coach before it goes into storage.
Thank you to everyone who we reconnected with during this trip. Thank you to Alliance for building a solid coach and for the huge FamAlly we have joined! And a huge thanks to our son Dan Schellhase who stops by our house weekly if not more often to make sure everything is OK on the home front. We could not do this without him!
Thanks to all who followed along with us with the blog. Writing a blog every night is a lot of work not to mention editing and cropping the pictures, and shrinking them so they will upload efficiently. You are getting it uncut and unfiltered - what happens along the way you are reading about. And now we are done, except for the final stats (below), and we "stick a fork in it"! It's done!
Next year's travels are still being planned. We have a couple grand children's high school graduations to schedule in there, so, again, SEMPER GUMBY!
Final Stats: This is campground #37 of 37
# States Traveled Through So Far This Trip, in order: 35 (IA, MO, KS, OK, TX, AR, MO, IL, IN, OH, PA, NY, VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, NY, PA, MD, WV, VA, TN, NC, TN, GA, TN, GA, TN, AL, MS, TN, AR, MO, IA)
# States left to visit on this trip: 0 ( )
Baseball Parks Visited So Far This Trip: 2 (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City OK; Texas A&M Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park)
Lighthouses visited: 13 (Olcott Lighthouse, Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse, Old Orchard Lighthouse, Tibbetts Point Lighthouse, Rock Island Lighthouse, Whitlock Mill Lighthouse, Mulholland Lighthouse, Lubec Channel Light, West Quoddy Head Light, Portland Head Light, Ram Island Ledge Light, Cape Elizabeth Light East, Cape Elizabeth Light West
Lighthouses climbed: 1
Point to point travel miles: 7778 miles
- Avg point to point travel miles between campgrounds: 199 miles
Vicinity miles: 4434 miles
- Avg vicinity miles: 120 miles
Total miles driven: 12212 miles
Total point to point driving time: 161 hrs 27 minutes
Total diesel fuel purchased: 1110.141 gals
Total diesel fuel cost: $4101.92
Average diesel fuel cost/gal: $3.709
Max diesel fuel cost: $4.499 (Wilson NY)
Min diesel fuel cost: $3.059 (Tupelo MS) <New>
Avg MPG: 11.55 miles/gal
Cost/mi of operation: $0.34
# Nights at end of this stay: 156 (Includes Griff's start)
Total lodging cost: $7442.35 (includes Griff's start)
Average cost/night: $47.71
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