13--45--14--99--10183--502--24--4--20.3--11



I am in to Las Vegas--spent $3!!




The wagons that people used to transport 20 mule team Borax 165 miles to the train!

We arrived home yesterday about noon so thankful for a safe trip.
The numbers, here is what they mean:

• 13--we had that many straight days of rain, often heavy.  One night in CO we had 6 inches which one man said was a year of rain in one night.
• 45--the number of days we were on the road, we slept in the camper 42 nights
• 14--the number of states we spent time in
• 99--Sunday night was the 99th night in our camper in the last 17 months
• 10,183--the miles we drove on our trip
• 502--the number of gallons of gas we purchased
• 24--the number of national parks we visited
• 4--the number of MN state parks we visited--that makes 45 in the last two years
• 20.3--the mpg we got pulling our camper which I thought was remarkable
• 11--the number of micro-brewers we visited and purchased a growler

We have today and tomorrow and then we will be off again for a short trip, maybe 1500 miles or so. 
It would be difficult to say what THE highlight of our trip was as there were so many.  The national parks are so beautiful and it would be fun to visit them all again.  Not to put a downer on any of the trip but I would say the International Peace Gardens in ND were one of the downers.  There were few flowers, many of the gardens were weedy and the guards coming out of the park were rude.  Perhaps the place we have NO desire to return to is Las Vegas.  We drove the strip, walked around for about 90 minutes and that is all I need in a life time. 
We enjoyed the Saunders wedding in Fargo, our visit with Dave and Marlys in Jamestown, our visit with my long time friend Larry F in Havre MT and our visit with cousin Ruth Gergerson in CA.  We spent 2 nights with Larry and before we arrived I thought we may not have anything to talk about as it had been 41 years BUT the time was so fun and we could have visited much more.  My cousin, well we just dropped in as we did not have her phone.  That is something I am terrible at doing but she was so delighted and our two hours there was so much fun.
We continue to really like our camper.  It held up like a trouper as we drove so many miles and experienced so much rain.  Many nights we went without electric and that was no problem if we did not need the AC.  As we drove each day the car charged the camper battery and by the time we would camp for the night the battery would be fully charged.  Our 54 quart cooler, the electric one, keep things good at 34 degrees so no fuss, no muss with ice!  The car and camper---well they were so so dirty inside and out much of the time.  Yesterday we cleaned the inside of both but the outsides need a good wash now.
We have much to do these next couple of days so will sign off, enjoy the last of my FP and get going with the day.