Teamubr
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Figured I'd update this one last time.
We took the "northern" route home from NC. (I-40 up to I-77 to I-64) I'm glad we did. It was great. Beautiful. There was snow covering once we were in Virginia and most of the way in WV until we were close to Charlottesville. I have never driven that part of the country. I really liked the mountain views and the snow made it all the prettier. There were a few decent climbs, but nothing that slowed us. Overall, it was less steep than Monteagle on I-24, but more of it.
It was a little concerning when we stopped for lunch around the Va, WV border and there were "Winter Storm Warnings" on the highway signs and at the truck stop. When I looked it up, it wasn't forecast to start until 12 hours after we were there.
We drove straight through. All 15 hours and 980 miles of it. About the same as coming home from the Fort. We generally do that straight through too. We left Swansboro, NC at exactly 7am EST. That was my goal. I estimated that would get me home about 9pm CST accounting for a few stops. We stopped a couple of more times than I intended. I was starting to get concerned that DW wanted to check out the rest areas in every state we were going through. Luckily we did skip Indiana and Illinois. We pulled into the drive at 9:20pm CST, in the pouring rain. It had been raining at home all day and things were soaked. We grabbed our pillows and went to bed.
Spent today unpacking a month's worth of clothes, food, stuff for 3 cats, 2 offices worth of computers, 4 monitors, printers, scanners and network equipment. It was dry this morning, but started sleeting/heavy snow flurries around noon. I cleaned up the camper a bit and re-winterized. Laundry has been started and the camper is sitting in the driveway until towels, sheets and quilts are clean and ready to go back in.
I'll probably take the camper back to storage in a day or two depending on weather. Hopefully it will stay dry long enough to get the cover back on so it can stay in hibernation until April.
j
We took the "northern" route home from NC. (I-40 up to I-77 to I-64) I'm glad we did. It was great. Beautiful. There was snow covering once we were in Virginia and most of the way in WV until we were close to Charlottesville. I have never driven that part of the country. I really liked the mountain views and the snow made it all the prettier. There were a few decent climbs, but nothing that slowed us. Overall, it was less steep than Monteagle on I-24, but more of it.
It was a little concerning when we stopped for lunch around the Va, WV border and there were "Winter Storm Warnings" on the highway signs and at the truck stop. When I looked it up, it wasn't forecast to start until 12 hours after we were there.
We drove straight through. All 15 hours and 980 miles of it. About the same as coming home from the Fort. We generally do that straight through too. We left Swansboro, NC at exactly 7am EST. That was my goal. I estimated that would get me home about 9pm CST accounting for a few stops. We stopped a couple of more times than I intended. I was starting to get concerned that DW wanted to check out the rest areas in every state we were going through. Luckily we did skip Indiana and Illinois. We pulled into the drive at 9:20pm CST, in the pouring rain. It had been raining at home all day and things were soaked. We grabbed our pillows and went to bed.
Spent today unpacking a month's worth of clothes, food, stuff for 3 cats, 2 offices worth of computers, 4 monitors, printers, scanners and network equipment. It was dry this morning, but started sleeting/heavy snow flurries around noon. I cleaned up the camper a bit and re-winterized. Laundry has been started and the camper is sitting in the driveway until towels, sheets and quilts are clean and ready to go back in.
I'll probably take the camper back to storage in a day or two depending on weather. Hopefully it will stay dry long enough to get the cover back on so it can stay in hibernation until April.
j
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