Home again.  Two simple but very, very sweet words to our family.  We arrived Saturday just in time for snow, wind, cold temperatures...who cares!!!  We are glad to be home.

Thoughts about the trip now that it is over:

  We needed one more suitcase.  We had seven.  Since we had to pack for weather of every season there were a lot of clothes for each of us.  We certainly didn't want to haul six suitcases at each stop especially when it was only for a night or two.  So, I packed several days worth of clothing in one suitcase for the whole family.  The rest of our clothes were left in a bag for each individual.  We also had to have a special bag for Sunday clothes.  That meant that baby and mommy had to share a bag for our extra clothes. Oh well, we are close anyway! 

  Hotel rates make no sense.  We stayed in one particular chain of hotels for nearly any night we needed a hotel.  The one in Gillette, Wyoming charged more than the one in Chicago, Illinois!

  Schooling on the road is not so bad as long as you are in the car and don't want to do science experiments.  The problem comes when you are not in the car -- there are so many distractions.

  When you are traveling on I-90 west from Rapid City, SD there is a point where you see a sign warning that the road will be doing the "s-curve" thing.  Underneath where it usually suggests something like 35mph or even 50mph the sign actually says 70mph!  Yes, we trusted it.  We went 70mph on a curve that is truly s-shaped.  It almost felt like we were on a racetrack because the road was banked so high. 

  If you are ever in Wheat, Montana there is a fabulous place to get coffee, cinnamon rolls, and several kinds of wheat flour.  It is called Montana Wheat Bakery.  We left the place with coffee, rolls and a 50 lb bag of whole wheat flour. 

I don't suppose that is all the wisdom I can come up with but it is all I can think of during the time I have to write tonight.  So, I will close for now to go enjoy my    

Home Sweet Home.