January 28. 2013. Home via Jonesboro

 

 

 

 

 

January 28. 2013. We are home again. The first photo is Craighead County Lake from the campground this morning. We drove by Mom's house and snapped a couple of pictures of the house and neighborhood before heading home. The house seems to be well kept. There is lumber under the carport. I surmise the owners are continuing to remodel the interior. The final photo is the church which Dad helped to build as chairmen of the board of deacons after the old one was destroyed by fire.

The final results from the photo quiz are in. Emory and Miles got 7-8 out of 10, depending on whether Annie is the grader or whether I am. I am an easier grader than she is. So, we're calling the contest a tie. Annie will give each grandchild (and Buster) five dollars. Jens gets nothin' despite his whining and complaining about being excluded from the contest. He seems to think he is my adopted grandson.

The trip by the numbers: We traveled 3500 miles over the last four weeks and used about 250 gallons of gas. We stayed in one commercial campground, one National Park and one county campground. All the rest were state parks. The average cost was about $30 per night. Harvey performed well. He now has 42,000 miles on the odometer, 30,000 of which we've driven. He'll go back to his cave tomorrow and remain there until we retrieve him again in June. Where will we go in June? We're talking about eastern Canada again. The drawback is that it is probably a 5000-mile trip. That's a lot of driving and leaves little time for sitting and reading. We'll see.

So long for now.