We're home!! (facts and figures)

We drove from Cameron, MO to St. Paul, MN today, stopping in Des Moines at the Waveland Cafe for lunch. It was quite a funky place with good food, so we were revved for the final four hour drive. When we got to St. Paul, Mara was reunited with her fousin.

We drove a total of SIX thousand SIX hundred twenty SIX miles!!! The average MPG was 50, a bit lower than previous years. It was the longest drive in the fewest days. Many times I thought we were pacing ourselves a bit faster than other years, and now I see that, sure enough, we were moving pretty fast. Here are some more trivial facts:

most pickup trucks - Louisiana
most Honda Elements - New Mexico
best cactus - Arizona
most interesting road kill = Louisiana (armadillos)
fastest speed limit - Texas (of course (80))
most tolerable radio stations - Oklahoma

Nobody wins the song contest, the lyrics are from the Little Feat song, Willin'. Where are all the people I knew back in the '80's?

Sara's top two stops - Watts towers and Georgia O'Keeffe's home and studio
Sara's bottom two (non)stops - closed art car museum and cancelled chuckwagon breakfast

Mara's top two stops - City of Rocks and Disneyland

Mara's bottom two stops - walk of fame (too many people!!!!) and the top of the St. Louis Arch (the bottom is better)

In 2011 we are taking a field trip to France and England where I will return to my role as "chaperone". It is not clear, at this point, if the blog will have a European chapter. In 2012 we might be heading east. We still have the entire east coast and a few inland states to cover. And then, Alaska and Hawaii. Thanks for all your comments, we sure enjoy hearing from you.