The Trip Home (Day Two)

Not much to today. We drove for 10 hours to get back to Leander. We left Dalhart at about 8:00 AM. There weren’t too many stops or surprises. We did stop at a McDonald’s outside Amarillo because I was jonesing for coffee. Lisa ran in to get it while I walked the dogs in a field. A couple of young boys at the McDonald’s came out and wanted to pet the dogs. They were very friendly kids and so I let them walk the boys around. As Lisa and I were leaving, their mom came out and they had to leave too. One of the boys was so cute . . . he said as he was leaving that he wanted to take Reese with him! Our dogs were SO popular!

The only other momentous stop was when we stopped for lunch outside Abilene. We stopped at one of those roadside rest stops. Lisa made sandwiches while I walked the boys around. It was a very pleasant little picnic!

After that, we just had a few hours in the car and were home by 6:15 PM. We got unloaded and generally unpacked pretty fast. Of course, we’d been gone so long, and the rain had been so heavy in Austin, that the lawn was a mess. I got out the weed eater and started edging the front yard because I was afraid we’d get a notice from the HOA. Just before dark, Lisa called me in for dinner. I still wasn’t done edging. It’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

I miss the mountains and weather in Estes Park, but it’s nice to be home!