10,591 miles!

We are home.  Got here on Friday - 8/9 around noon after spending the night in Kerrville.  Got up early and cleaned the rv inside and out so all we had to do was unload things when we got home. It's odd being back home.  We start looking for things where they would be in the rv and Jeff and I are both waking up in the middle of the night thinking we are still in the rv (wishful thinking!)

We decided to each write down our top 10 things we remember about our trip; (mine is  a little different - I did the 10 best things about the trip)

Jeff:
Ten things about the trip I will remember
1. Spending up lots of up close and personal time with the whole family
2. Our National Parks and all the great scenery
3. Seeing old friends and family in Alaska
4. The pollution in Canada
5. The dry states and the poor suffering livestock and wildlife
6. Our terrible road conditions
7. Seems to be plenty of water for fracking wells
8. The high number of people living in trailers and mobile homes
9. The bears, buffalo, whales and other wild critters
10. The ferry trip

Renee:

10 Best Things about our trip – in no particular order

1. Visiting our National Parks – especially Arches National Park 
2. Spending time together as a family 
3. Taking the Alaska Marine Hwy on a portion of the Inside Passage 
4. Waking up somewhere new almost every day 
5. Seeing old friends and visiting with family 
6. Seeing Jade and Mya learn so much about everything along the way 
7. Learning so much myself about the areas through which we traveled(Thank you Google!) 
8. Seeing so much wildlife: buffalo, bears, birds, chipmunks, herons, and so many others. 
9. Texting with my sister in Alaska as we traveled along our routeJ 



We covered 11 states and 2 Canadian Provinces on this trip! 
I started planning next year's route about 4 nights before we
got home. Got to fill in that WHOLE map! 

10. Realizing the importance of the phrase: “I wonder . . .

Jade:
10 things I remember
#1Carlsbad Caverns
#2National Parks
#3The Buffalo
#4The cows and horses
#5Mountain Sheep
#6Whales
#7Mendenhal Glacier
#8Juneau
#9M.V MATANUSKA
#10Getting home

Mya:
Top 10 things about summer
1. The Redwood Forest

2. Arches National Park

3. The deserts

4. Mendenhall Glacier

5. Petrified Forest

6. Painted Desert

7. Bob's campground

8. Playgrounds (at campgrounds)

9. The beach, lake

10. My family

In the words of Willie Nelson, "just can't wait to get on the road again"!!!