It's Good To Be Back Home Again!

This last day of our grand tour started in Northwestern Pennsylvania and ended in Mt Holly, NJ, for a "welcome home dinner" (not technically our home, but close enough). Cheryl drove the middle third of our trip, the pretty part, the north to south part as we followed first the Juniata River, then the Susquehanna from State College to Harrisburg. As usual on this journey, there were lots and lots of construction sites along the way.

The end of our day, however, was the most memorable moment. As we pulled up to the home of our son & daughter-in-law, our smiling granddaughter, Amalia, waved a checkered flag from the front porch. We had arrived! Our 29 days of living out of a suitcase had come to an end.

Now that we're back, we took the time to do a little math. Here's a way to understand how vast our country actually is.....what it means to drive through all that nothing. The area of Texas is 268,820 square miles, equivalent to more than 172 million acres. As of July, 2011 the entire population of the USA was 311,591,917. So....every single man, woman and child living in the US could move to their own half acre of Texas, and Texas would have room left over! The rest of the country would be empty!

Our trip is now a compilation of memories. One thing about driving a Corvette: no room for souvenirs. The experiences and several hundred photos are all there is. We have had such an awesome trip and met so many interesting people along the way. Both our Corvette and/or the NJ license plates were the start of conversations all over the country as people were amazed that we had driven that far in that small car. 

It was truly a once in a lifetime experience!