100th Blog and We are Home

Good morning Gig Harbor!
After 566 miles of mountain passes, rain, traffic and completed the last leg of our journey yesterday, landing in Gig Harbor, just across Puget Sound from Tacoma, where we will begin our house hunting saga.

This also marks the 100th Blog of the trip.  I think I will keep it going as it is a good form of communication and easy.  Also it provides a quasi journal for me.  Important when your memory has more loopholes then a congressional budget.

566 miles is way too far for one day pulling a 12,000 pound 5th wheel.  Especially if you are crossing a 4700 foot mountain passes and lots of 2-3000 foot passes as well.  But as we got within 200 miles of home it didn't make sense to stop for one night when we were so close.

Suzy hasn't been this excited since I don't know when and I admit I am happy to be back in the NW.  We will now begin work with son in law, Jeff, in finding a new, non-rolling home.  He has many lined up for us already.  We chose Gig Harbor first so we can decide if we like living on the other side of the sound and a distance from Tate and Jeff.

Summary of statistics from the trip will follow in the next blog.  Everything you wanted to know about traveling the U.S. in quantifiable hard data.  Also a harrowing tale of what could have been with the trailer that wasn't, and hasn't been told yet, as it happened two days ago.

But suffice to say for now, we had a great trip, saw more then we ever thought possible, met interesting people, learned  to live in very close proximity to each other in a retired  mode, and did it all without an accident.  Cheers