Westward Ho...Day 22, 23, 24, and 25 (Traveling and arriving home)

August 23 - 26…. Ralph is on a mission…to get home. On Saturday, August 23 we made it to Lexington, NE. This was our first and only Wal-Mart of the trip. August trips unless you're in the North is not conducive to Wal-Mart camping. Sunday morning we got up and left early. Sunday was another three state day (Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri). We drove to Columbia, MO and stayed in a really nice campground about one mile from the Interstate. When we pulled in, the fifth wheel in front of us was from Tennessee…Loudon, County. When we walked past the lady in the truck, Ralph commented that they were a long way from home, to which she replied… yes about 12,000 miles. Her husband was in the office registering and he said they left Tellico Village on June 1 and had been with a caravan in Alaska for 53 days!!! They were on their way back to Tennessee.

While Ralph was washing the windshield and the front of the motor home he noticed the tires on the front were worn on the inside… so bad that he didn't want to go any further on them. We found a tire dealer about 12 miles back from the campground and purchased two new tires… he thinks when we had the motor home towed to Denver it messed up the alignment. After getting the tires we left Columbia around noon and made it to Paducah, Kentucky on Monday evening.

Tuesday morning we are on our way home!!! It started raining on us in Nashville (remnants of FAY). We arrived at home around 2:45 p.m.

Total driving miles in the motor home: 4,128.

Total driving miles in the car: 1,027

We were under budget on our gasoline… highest we paid for gas in the motor home was $4.079 per gallon which was in Jackson Hole and the least expensive was $3.399 per gallon (near St. Louis).

It was a great trip and the weather (other than being hot) couldn't have been any better.

We came home, stayed two nights and then went to Townsend for the Labor Day events. After arriving home on Tuesday, Ralph said he knew he had been gone from home too long when he tried to flush the toilet at home with his foot!!!