Homeward Bound

My FB friends saw my photo of the cute little yurt-cabin we stayed in at Heber City UT. The campground section of RiversEdge Camp was filled for Saturday night so the manager suggested we put the TT in their storage area and sleep in a yurt. It was great fun but at bedtime I was ready for “my” bed in the camper.

The good part was the yurt had a table and seating for four. Wayne and Gay came over and we had dinner guests for the first time in months. They had just moved out of their Park City house and into their new place on Wed. We celebrated by going to our mutual favorite restaurant in Kamas Friday night so on Saturday night we “entertained”.

Saturday morning I was sitting outside with my feet propped on the picnic table drinking coffee when a teenager from the next site came over with a huge bottle of ketchup. They were a family of six from Germany traveling in a rented RV and they were going to Salt Lake City to turn it in. She offered me the ketchup and I lacked sufficient German to refuse, so I accepted it with many thanks. I sat it on the table and returned to my musings. Suddenly the flutter of tiny wings cooled my toes. A hummingbird, very interested in the ketchup bottle was buzzing my feet! What if I had turned down the ketchup? I would have missed a Happening.

Sunday morning found us totally without firm plans. The weather had turned cool and we wondered about going back to the Four Corners area for a few days. Then we debated about the Grand Tetons or Yellowstone but we lacked enthusiasm for more hordes of vacationers. So we got on I-80 and headed east.

Sunday we crossed Wyoming and stayed at an “ok for overnight” CG right on I-80 near Cheyenne. Yesterday we crossed most of Nebraska and camped at Pawnee State Recreational Area near Lincoln. We got off the interstate this morning and took secondary roads through eastern NB, crossing the Big Mo for the first time near Browning. Back on the four-lane on I-29 to north of Kansas City and I-70 across Missouri.  We are at Graham Cave State Park west of St. Louis tonight. The weather is still cool enough but the humidity hit us hard this afternoon.

I think it is official: we are going home.

(photo is of 1988 Land Rover Defender being driven around the world by the Young Rovers, Shayne and Sandra Young of Ft. Lauderdale. We met them three times in Alaska.)