Vote early, vote often!

Tue. Nov. 2: Election Day. Since we had voted absentee, we didn’t have voting to worry about. We ate breakfast and hitched up the trailer to the truck down at the Club House where we had parked them. After loading up our stuff we bid a fond good-bye to Chuck and Mary and hit the road for the last time at about 9:30. We weren’t sure if we would stop to camp on the way home or do the whole thing in one day. There had been a heavy frost and the temperature was barely about freezing when we left. But it was sunny and not a bit windy, so it was a fine day for driving in the mountains of Pennsylvania in late autumn. With no hold-ups we decided by lunchtime that we’d go all the way home today, taking short breaks along the way. We stopped in Saline to say a quick hello to my mom and made it home by 10:00. It had been a really nice trip and we felt like we were gone longer than two weeks. We paid from $2.59 to $2.94 for gas, and saw it as high as $3.03 in Bethesda. We averaged 17 miles to the gallon getting to the Parkway, 14 miles per gallon in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and about 16 miles per gallon coming home today. We had seen a lot of family and good friends and all in all are quite content with our second Autumn Adventure of Retirement.