Our Last Day on the Road--Part II

Still Saturday, 10/13


I realized as we were leaving Rochester that we had no pictures of us driving in the truck.  So here's Captain Nils at the wheel:

World's best driver

And here I am, on the computer.  Nils took this one while he was driving, for goodness' sake (which is probably against some law or other).

Lisa answering email in the car

Nils threw caution to the wind and drove almost 70mph most of the time---we just wanted to be done with all this driving.  The scenery was lovely---colorful foliage and I saw about 4 V-formations of geese in the sky (right up there with twisty trees as one of my favorite things).   We had a total of 5 1/2 hours to drive and we had daylight for a little over half of it.  Had to stop twice for gas, which got more and more expensive as we headed east, it seemed.

coming into the front door

By a little after 9pm we pulled into Wells Street....it was pitch dark out, so we couldn't really see the beauties of Deerfield....we did, however, soon appreciate the beautiful cleanliness of our house.  Erika and Lucy had driven down from VT last weekend and dusted and cleaned everything for us.  What a treat!  Unloading the RV and putting everything away was a big job already, to not have to clean months worth of dust bunnies was fantastic.  Muchas Gracias, Tusend Tack, Vielen Dank, Merci Beaucoup.   We brought in the bare essentials (toiletries, bed pillows and alcohol), turned up the heat everywhere and bemusedly asked each other, "where's the light switch?  Which drawer does this spoon go into?  How do I turn on the garbage disposal?"  It felt very strange.  It took a little while to get the hang of everything after so long away.    Ah! The bliss of long hot showers!  Getting into our incredibly comfortable king-sized bed!  Feeling truly warm enough for the first time in about 10 days!  Lovely.

Not to worry, I'm not quite done yet with the blog....