After 81 days,12,916 miles,1821 photographs, and too many incredible memories to count, the Wee RV rolled into Kingsport last night. The end of a journey like this is always a bitter sweet time when it is good to be home, yet sad to trade those wide open spaces for "real world" enclosures. Ralph Waldo Emerson said in one of his essays, "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." Hopefully we brought back more than a little beauty to our "real world" enclosures.
Before I close I'll share some of the last photos of the unique Lambert's Throwed Roll Cafe in Sikeston, MO where we ate lunch. It reminded me of Dobyns-Bennett cafeteria in that when you raised your hand the waiter threw a hot roll to you (or at you) from across the room! Bill was quick enough to grab his roll as it banked off the wall above him so I decided it would be safer to let him catch mine, too.
We spent our last night out camping at Land Between the Lakes near Paducah, KY, in probably the prettiest campground I've ever seen. There are 378 great campsites on Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake and we had almost the entire place to ourselves for a final bike ride, campfire, and sunset.
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| This area is the largest inland peninsula in the United States |
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In closing, we are truly thankful for another summer of good health to be able to make our trek to Alaska, for so many miles of safe travel, for some great new friends we met along the way, and for awesome family and friends like you who took time to check our blog, send encouraging comments, and help pray us safely home. We are so blessed!
