Home!

From Janie:

Saturday, November 17, 2012.  We arrived home yesterday, about 4:00 pm., after nearly three months of travel, including driving to California, cycling across the country, and driving home from South Carolina.

Whew.  Very happy to be home.

Iowa City to the West Coast by car

Galena/Santa Barbara to Hilton Head by bike

Hilton Head to Iowa City by car

 

Rush hour, leaving Louisville KY.

Driving through Indiana.

A load of Christmas trees, from the South, headed to the North.

Indianapolis, from the highway.

Entering Illinois.  There was no stopping The Little Darkness at this point.

Not even for pictures.

GalesburgIL.

Food and a haircut for Jody.

Home!

 

46 maps.

We didn't keep all of the local maps.

Some are duplicate state maps.

All but 3 or 4 were in the glove box of The Little Darkness!

9 more shot glasses for Theo.

There are probably 20 or so more from the first part of the trip.

One of the hot sauce bottles, from Louisiana.

Purchased in Charleston SC.

 

Hot sauce from Costa Rica, bought in Savannah.

Janie couldn't resist the label.

Pecan oil from Louisiana, bought in Sylvester GA.

Smoked olive oil from Johns Island SC, bought in Charleston SC.

Not counting what we ate along the road:

1 cotton boll

4 t-shirts

2 sweatshirts

1 bottle olive oil

1 bottle pecan oil

1 bottle of jalapeno wine (not hot enough!)

4 bottles of bourbon

2 carved fish

1 carved turtle

5 carved or ceramic boxes (turtles and bears)

pecans (both in the shell and shelled)

(the pecan brittle didn't make it home)

2 jars salsa

8 jars of jelly or preserves (most with peppers)

1 bag organic granola

2 chocolate drink mixes

honey maple syrup

honey

sorgrum

jalapeno pecan honey butter

2 kinds of BBQ sauce

sweet potato butter

1 box of heirloom Bhutan red rice

14 or so bottles of hot sauce

 

Home is the nicest word there is.
     ~Laura Ingalls Wilder