09/12/2023 - Day 89 Heading Home

It’s Tuesday and we’re heading to SC, our home base and the end of this Adventure.  It’s a bittersweet time, especially since this is our first trip out since 2020. 

Here’s a few stats for this trip: We’ve been gone since 06/16; or 89 days 

We’ve driven:  9,811 miles, averaging 11.1 mph, at a cost of $3,187. 

We’ve traveled to/through 16 states:

SC - start NC - drive through 

TN - Dollywood, Cades Cove, Great Smokey Mountains 

KY -Churchill downs, KY Horse Park

IN - toured Grand Design RV factory, ate some awesome Amish food  

MI* -Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Mackinaw Island, Mackinac BridgeWI - drive across 

MN * - finally visited Clonia & Dan ; went to a meat raffle

ND* - Theodore Roosevelt National ParkMT - Billings Airport to get our babies

WY - Cody, Yellowstone National Park, Beartooth Highway, Chief Joseph Highway 

CO - Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, drove the Million Dollar Highway, Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods

UT - Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse State Park, Petroglyphs

NM -Route 66, Music Highway 

TX - Route 66, Cadillac Ranch

OK- Route 66, Oklahoma City National Memorial 

AR - 🥴

TN - Grand Ole RV Park

NC - layover 

SC- Home 

We visited our last 3 states! Mr Charley and I can both say we’ve been to all 50 States! Of course, not all by RV, since we’ve both cruised to Hawaii, but how many people can say they’ve been to all 50 states!  We’ve visited over 40 National Parks! 
  “The Great Adventure”, back in 2015 - my first time out West  “Maiden Voyage” back in 2016 - Atlantic North East trip in my Class C  “The Grand Adventure” back in 2017 - Drive to Alaska  “The Greater Adventure” back in 2019 - Pacific North West  And now, “The Greatest Adventure - last 3 of 50”
I am beyond blessed and so thankful Mr Charley has allowed me to ride along. We both know how fortunate we are to be able to do this. Our next “adventure” planned is wintering in TX, since we’ve been wintering in FL for the last 8 years or so. But, who knows what the Lord has planned., and of course, Mr Charley has that “gift” (of changing his mind). So now, I’ll be couch surfing for awhile. Here’s our last sunrise in NC, thankful I got to see another one. 


Have a good one everybody. 

 

 










Have a good one everybody.