Day 25 of Western Adventures (Central Indiana)

We repack the car for the last time on this trip.  This was stay # 21 and the guys are pros at this, but they are sick of it and ready to be home. It is Sunday, but we have a hard time knowing what day it is, much less the date.  The drive today is a short one as we motor across Illinois and into Indiana. We change time once more and the last of our trip.  Of course, Jerry has “Back Home Again in Indiana” on his hard drive and we play it over and over again as we entered our home state.  He also had the “Hail Purdue” song and we loved singing that one over and over, too.

   Our co-pilotsBob was the bookkeeper.   One last Mc D stop for coffee

He and Jerry alternated who filled the gas tank.  We purchased 389.25 gallons of gas at an average cost of $ 3.93/gallon and a total cost of  $1530.44 for our gas.  We drove 7,629 miles from Jerry’s brother, Fred’s in Muncie and back to Fred’s.  We each have over 400 miles yet to travel back to Maggie Valley and Cheboygan.

 

 

                We don’t seem to be any worse for the trip .This is the first night ( in nearly 4 weeks) that  we don’t have to pick a place to sleep or decide where to eat. We all have less than 2 weeks to regroup and recover before we are back in Indiana at Purdue for Homecoming and the 60th Anniversary for Twin Pines Co-op where Lydia and Joyce were roommates. ( 50 years ago)  We all laugh at what we think “old” is, and we can’t seem to grasp that we are old enough to have known each other for over 50 years.  Joyce joked that we can fast forward 10 years, and we will all be at University Place in West Lafayette waiting on the bus to take us to the Purdue Homecoming game!  We can only hope for good health 10 years from now so this could be a reality.