Good endings

After showers at the campground, we leave at 8:45AM.  It is cloudy, cool and grey.  Today, like the horse to the barn, we’ll run to home.  We’ve enjoyed this latest Advanced RV model.  Still, from this 5,000-mile, 18-day and 12-night (including 3 off-the-grid) trip, plus countless conversations with other RV users, we’ll return with a list of ideas for improvements on this and future Advanced RV Sprinter motorhomes.  We stop to see a covered bridge in Greenup, IL but pass up Abraham Lincoln’s Log Home that is 20 miles out of the way.  We stop for breakfast and later a quick lunch but push to Cleveland.  About 7PM, just a few miles from home, we stop for a quick dinner at our local Middle Eastern restaurant.   In the parking lot, a couple comes over to ask about our RV.  This happens a lot, but this couple was serious.  We spend about a half-hour with them, exchanged contact information and inviting them for a visit to Advanced RV, not far from where they live.  After this long trip out west and back, here is a potential client so close to home!  Into the restaurant, I take the book I have been reading aloud to Mike when he drives – “Transatlantic” by Colum McCann – so we can finish the last few pages.   Over a glass of wine, we savor the ending of both a great book and a great trip.