29 Sep
Stick a fork in it. This sucker is D.U.N done! We had a fantastic trip and made it home safe and sound without bending any metal or losing any skin! We departed the West Omaha/NE Lincoln KOA this morning at 0930 hrs and headed eastbound on I-80 towards Des Moines.
We stopped once at Underwood IA rest area for a potty break and then hammer down into Ankeny. West of Des Moines we decided to take I-235 through Des Moines rather than I-80/35 around Rider corner since it was in the middle of the day. No issues. At 1240 hrs we rolled into Griff's Valley View RV Park after driving 164 miles today. We set-up quickly in site C8 and cooked up a late lunch.
Our RV will be here at Griff's for the next 14 nights as we unload it, winterize it, repair a couple minor things and basically get it ready for it's long winter's nap. We are sleeping here tonight, but after tonight we will move home and commuting our here each day as we work on getting it ready to store.
We had a fantastic RV travel year! We are thankful our health allows us to travel. We saw a ton of friends, relatives, military comrades and Alliance Allies, and we saw a lot of the great United States! We won't regurgitate a lot about the trip as it is already documented in all of the blog posts. We had no ER visits, no veterinary visits, no truck issues and no RV issues to speak of. I don't think either Doreen or I even had so much as a cough or cold the whole trip. We are tired but a good "tired" and after a winter reset we will be ready to hit it hard again ~1 Apr next year! Texas, here we come!! For now it is back to reality, back to the gym, knock out the physicals, the dental appointments (coming to see you Carrie Ireland Deal!!), the dermatology appointments, the optometrist appointments, the veterinary appointments - you get the idea!
Thank you to everyone who we reconnected with during the 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, and we "stick a fork in it"!
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