Today was pretty much only about getting home. We'll have tomorrow to recuperate and start cleaning out the RV before Barbara returns to work on Monday, and Bill returns to shopping, laundry, and cooking (although we’ll get the laundry started on Sunday and some of the shopping done).

We did make a stop on the way home, though. We’ve both decided that the Roadtrek is too cramped for extended trips. It was fine last year for two weeks in the southwest, but somewhere during week three of this trip I started complaining loudly about the lack of space. I noticed it early on but only started complaining in week three. Barbara had the same thoughts. So we stopped at an RV dealership in the Gilroy area and looked at larger RVs (new, larger Roadtreks and some Class C RVs). We still don’t know what we want, and I think we’re more confused now than before.

We hadn’t been home for ten minutes when we got a call from Shannon, looking to see if we were home yet. She and Jared came over with pizzas, and Brian showed up, too (Rietta was in Yosemite for a conference). It was a neat surprise, and we enjoyed spending the evening with our kids. Then we got the other surprise. It seems a friend of Brian’s rescued a kitten (about six months old) in the complex where they live, but they can’t keep it. The kitten had been living under, in, or around some cars and was covered in oil and fleas. They got her cleaned up and took her to a vet for shots and a checkup. Brian told them he would take the kitten and either keep her or find her a home. Guess whose home he found?

Anyway, she’s a pretty cat, pure white with one blue eye and one yellow-green eye. Sucker (our 19-year-old crotchety old-lady cat) hisses and growls and screams every time she sees the kitten or anything white (she doesn’t see well anymore, and will sometimes hiss at the white sheet she sleeps on). Molli, our dog, just wants to play, but the kitten hisses, rises up like a Halloween cat, and swats with lightening speed at the dog. Fortunately, Molli is still pretty fast, and no blood has been drawn. We need to see how this will all work out, but I think we have a new cat.

It’s good to be home.

Leigh Ann: you’re off the hook. Your cousins have taken your place of honor.

DAILY ENTERTAINMENT... courtesy of Shannon

We went one day too long: we enjoyed the last one yesterday. So we listened to yip-yip music and country music on the way home.

STATS
Day: 29, 10/2
Leave: 10:45 am; Valencia Travel Village
Breakfast: RV
Lunch: Buttonwillow Rest Stop—had leftovers from Peggy Sue’s yesterday
Dinner: at home with Brian, Shannon, and Jared
Arrive: 5:30 pm, home
Travelled: 319 miles; 6.75 hours
Comments: I’m looking forward to the next trip. I must be crazy.

TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 5454