Heading home from Alaska

     We have decided to drive a couple long days so that we can get home.  No sightseeing in the Black Hills on this trip.  We are both tired and anxious to relax.
     We started planning this trip 20 years ago at least.  We had a little Bethany pop-up camper and big dreams.  We drove this freeway to the Black Hills with our young family and enjoyed camping so much we just wanted to keep on doing it.  The old pop-up did not have air conditioning (pretty much like we have now with our broken unit) and no inside toilet or shower.  We are really spoiled now with our really comfortable queen bed, nice shower, big vanity, TV, DVR, and surround sound.
    The trip has battered our trailer some.  We will really need to work on the sofa since it is now propped up on a couple boards.  We need to get the air conditioning fixed as well as the cupboard door that the slideout crunched.
    We have lots of pictures and I have been working on editing them as we go.  I took one of a crop duster that was flying low over the freeway and scared us to death.  It is about the last picture that I took on the trip - just as we reached the Minnesota border.  I want to print out a scrapbook soon after we get home so we can show it to everyone.  I have also kept a good log of the Alaska part of the trip in our MilePost book.  There are so many entries for all the wildlife that we saw along the highway.  Sometimes a couple dozen in a single day.
     I can't wait to see the kids again and have a hot bath.  This has been a 10,000 mile, 70 day trip.  Wonderful and exciting, but it will be good to get home.