09-27-21 Sunday Mt. Rushmore Trip Day 27 Home Castro Valley CA

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09-27-21
Homeward Bound
Castro Valley, CA
Jeeps at Home: 2
Drive Time: 3
Miles: 161

I woke up craving bacon so I cooked breakfast. I pulled Schwan's frozen biscuits out of the freezer along with egg patties. I put the biscuits in the oven and cooked the bacon. The egg patties I just heated in the microwave. Once everything was cooked we made our own breakfast biscuits sandwiches. They were pretty darn yummy!!!! Cleaned up the kitchen and prepared the coach for the road. 

We left Viña Castellano around noon today. It was a rough ride home. The winds on I-5 were crazy and I could see Barry was struggling and very tense. Plus the roads were really rough. We missed those nice highways we travelled across the 6 states we visited: Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado. Other than the winds it was a boring ride, no new scenery to see which we commented on a few times. We made it home around 3:30PM. It took longer because of the winds, Barry drove slow and I'm glad he did. I thought we were going to be blown off the road a few times. 

It seems so sad to be home and kinda weird. It rained here this morning so things were still wet. We checked out our garden and we have tons of radishes to pick. As we were unpacking the coach all I could think of was the different areas we travelled to each day, the great people we met, the various campgrounds we stayed in, all the beautiful wild animals we saw and how vast our nation is. We only travelled to six states but those six states were huge for us. We had a blast and the 27 days we were gone went by so fast. 

We are already planning our next long jaunt but not until next year. Thank you to everyone that followed along with us. I hope we have inspired you to take a long road jaunt. Our country has so much see and is truly beautiful. 

Night all and Happy Jaunts!



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