Day 45 --Home from Alaska!

--------------------------------- Tucker Relaxing on my lap-----------------------

Thursday August 19, 2010. We had a bit of disturbance last night. Nothing other than 18 wheelers coming and going all night. We had one that must have been hauling a load of cattle because I remember waking up wondering what all the racket was. Larry said It sounded like the cows were tape dancing all night. They were parked a distance from us and we couldn't sleep so I hope the driver was not pulled in thinking HE would sleep!!! Not sure if the trucks were coming in to catch a few hours of sleep or if they were eating at the Casino. Possibly their pockets were heavy with
cash and they just stopped in the Casino to unload them??!?

After not sleeping much all night, I woke this morning to Larry crushing plastic bottles and chopping the cat's food. We are using bottled water to make coffee so each time he emptied one he had to crush it down and throw it in the garbage. Then when he feeds the cats, he has to make sure every little morsel is evenly chopped for them in their bowls. Otherwise they might choke on a dime size bite!@!@ These are just a few of my favorite things to wake up to! I think the motor home is getting smaller every day with the two of us together! I laid there for awhile trying to block out the noise and then he decided to get his shower--OK ENOUGH--I"M UP! So as is my usual routine, I get a cup of coffee and a cigarette and go outside for five or ten minutes of 'wake up' time! When I came in he was busy as a beaver, making the bed, cleaning the cat litter, bla, bla, bla! I got my shower and told him to go and I would finish getting ready on the road. SOMETIMES I COULD SCREAM meeting his schedule!!! Don't know why today was such a 'RUSH HOUR'.

We left a little after 8:00 and drove in very heavy fog for several miles. It appeared we had no lights on the motor home so we pulled off on an exit and checked to make sure they were working. I took over the driving and immediately came into construction with the orange cones on both sides of
my lane. As mentioned before in the blog, it's very hard at times keeping it all between the cones perfectly. I put a nice mark on our door back several weeks ago from the stupid cones that are spaced so close you only have a hairs width to get the RV through them at times. As I said before,
the construction crews think we all drive 'smart cars'!!!! Anyway we finally ran out of the construction and the fog pretty much at the same time.

We drove and drove today. Again the scenery lacked a lot but we just kept pushing on. It started getting quite warm so we ended up turning on the generator so we could run the 'house' air conditioner, rather than just the dash air. Even Tucker moved off his favorite bed on the dash because of the sun and heat. Later, however, he decided he would come back up front and sleep on my lap. I have never seen a cat get so comfortable lying on his back. It's almost disgraceful the way he looks when he sleeps on his back!!! We continued driving and ended up in Des Moines, IA by about 4:00PM. we talked about stopping for the night but decided to continue on as we were
both anxious to just get home. We drove to Davenport and stopped to refuel and grab something to eat. When we left Davenport, it seemed an eternity of driving until we pulled in at home. What a day --we drove about 700 miles today and arrived home at 9:30pm.

It seems no matter where we travel, home is always a welcome sight. I am thankful we were fortunate enough to be able to make our trip to Alaska and thank God our travels were safe.

So for now, I'm through with my blog. I've enjoyed writing about our adventures and hope everyone got some sense of just how beautiful our trip really was!