2015-04-23 The Long Journey Home

We made it!  Home again at last.  It has been a wonderful trip.  We have enjoyed every minute – even the scary ones.

We started home Tuesday, April 21^st from Cortez, Colorado and made it to Amarillo, Texas the first night. We had driven Route 40 on numerous occasions through Amarillo and I always wanted to stop at the Big Texan restaurant.  When we got to the RV Park there was a sign stating “Free Limo to Big Texan” – how could we resist.  This big cowboy in a stretch limo with horns strapped to the hood picked us up at our front door and a few minutes later there we were.

The Big Texan offers a 72oz steak with all the “fixins” – salad, fried shrimp, baked potato, and a roll.  If you can eat it within an hour you get your meal for free; otherwise, it is $72.  The Saturday before we arrived a young woman weighing 120 pounds ate 3 full meals in 20 minutes. Some people here at the RV Park were there to witness it.  They said she looked pregnant when she finished. That’s no bull.

They make you sit at the head table with timers above you and buckets below you just in case.

I managed to finish most of my prime rib (which was awesome) but only because I wanted to see what the plate looked like.

The rest of the building was like an amusement park – shooting gallery, 3 bars, dance hall, gift shop, fudge bar, museum pieces, and some fun photo ops.

Does this chair make my butt look small??

Wednesday, April 22

Started out early in the AM and got to see a nice sunrise. We passed more wind turbines than you could shake a stick at (stopped counting at 200 and they still went on for miles after that).

Thursday, April 23

We decided to stop in Red Bay, Alabama on our way home (it only added 40 miles on to the drive).  Red Bay is the home of Tiffin Motorhomes that made our bus.  We had a few windows with condensation and they sell them to you wholesale if you stop in and pick them up (otherwise, the price of shipping kills you).

In spite of the stop we made it to Atlanta just in time for rush hour which is no joy in a car let alone a 40 foot bus towing a Jeep.  We managed to make it home around 7:30PM and parked it in the local Publix parking lot for the night.  Tomorrow we'll take the RV up to our little nudist resort in Dawsonville for the summer.

Anyway, so long for now and here is our last picture for this trip.

Enough said!!