We departed Indiana Dunes State Park at 8:36 this morning and arrived home about 3:30 pm. As mentioned yesterday, we decided to push on through to home rather than staying over night in the middle of Illinois as originally planned. That made for a long day of towing a fifth wheel, but we are glad to be home.
As we approached the house from the street behind, Doreen said, "That looks like Daniel!" Indeed it was! Ashley brought the kids down from Ankeny to greet us as we drove in! It was really great to see them.
Now, to "unscrew" this thing. Reversing the process of going on a 146 day camping trip is a bit complicated. We really shut down the house before we left, so we had to turn the water and natural gas back on, relight the water heater pilot light, bleed the air from the water lines, shut down the alarm system, etc. We contacted the insurance company to turn the insurance back on for our Chrysler 200 that was stored in the garage. Of course it had not been started in five months and the battery was dead. And the list goes on.
From the standpoint of unloading the RV, we can only partially unload it as we are camping with the Iowa Jayco group this weekend at Winterset Iowa, about 20 mils from here. We also plan to camp with some Air Force friends as they travel through here at the end of September. I will give it a thorough washing this week as well as the truck. I also need to get the truck in for an oil change.
This trip was absolutely fantastic! The best part of the trip from my standpoint was having the opportunity to reconnect with so many friends and relatives. The historical sites we visited were great! I could go on and on about this but we will save that for another time. We are looking forward to planning next years adventure, probably Northwest.
Doreen and I hope you enjoyed traveling along with us as we hit the road. The blog was a whole lot more work that I had thought it would be, but it is obvious there were quite a few folks "tuned in". It will be fun for us to go back through it and review where we have been.
Here are a few final stats:
28 campgrounds visited
5506 miles point to point (miles on the RV and truck between campgrounds)
- 204 point to point miles average on travel days
- 4:38 average travel time on travel days
7286 vicinity miles (miles on the truck while touring)
- 291 vicinity miles average
12,792 total miles traveled
13.17 miles/gal average fuel economy
53 fuels stops
$2250.29 diesel fuel purchased
971.469 gals diesel fuel purchased
$2.31 average diesel fuel cost/gal
$42.47 @ 18.330 gal average diesel fuel per fill
$1.969 cheapest fuel at Saddlebrook MO on 26 Apr
$2.709 most expensive fuel at Wayne PA on 21 Jun
15 gal DEF used
13 gal propane used
$4299.01 camping fees total entire trip
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