there's no place like home?

We woke up and lingered in our luxurious bed in our comfy little suite. I told Lindy I wanted to live here but we knew we had a drive ahead of us so we got going. The breakfast at the Hampton was included and it was pretty good. They had great waffles, decent biscuits and much better gravy than what we had in Memphis. 580 miles is a long way to go in a day. We left about 10 and drove, stopping every couple hours for water and potty breaks. Traffic was pretty good, but we kept getting road construction. We had gotten a gift card from Crapplebies and decided to use it in Dubuque to eat supper. We thought maybe the one in Eau Claire was just atypically bad. Well, it wasn't, but at least we didn't have to pay. We kept on chugging on. Lindy made it through Potosi without getting a speeding ticket and we kept on going north. Every damn road in Wisconsin had road construction. I guess that's where our cut in pay went. I joked about stopping at the casino in Black River Falls, but she would have none of that. We finally made it home at 9, only 11 hours after leaving St. Louis. With Lindy promising me not to start wash until tomorrow we crawled into bed and slumbered off to dreamland. We were glad to be home, but we have many great memories of our last vacation of the summer and, who knows, the last one we'll be able to afford. She refused to get on the scale the next day, but I had to face reality. I was only up 4.4 pounds. The good thing I was down 3.8 the next day. Well, there it is, the last travel blog of the year. I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for your patience in my getting this on. Ta!