DAY 21

Day 21 Tuesday September 17, 2013

Yesterday was a rest up day, it gave me a chance to get current with the blog and take a nap in the afternoon. Today its laundry, organize for packing and gas up the Hunchback. The plan is to head home in the morning, Wednesday.

 Here is the schedule;

Wednesday	9/18/2013	Dayton to Ely, NV
Thursday	9/19/2013	Ely to Green River, UT
Friday	9/20/2013	Green River to Idaho Springs, CO
Saturday	9/21/2013	Idaho Springs to Hays, KS
Sunday	9/22/2013	Hays to Independence, MO
Monday	9/23/2013	Independence to St Louis, MO
Tuesday	9/24/2013	Gateway Arch
Wednesday	9/25/2013	St Louis to Murfreesboro, TN
Thursday	9/26/2013	Murfreesboro to Cordele, GA
Friday	9/27/2013	Cordele to Home

 Going home is sort of anti-climatic. Our hosts in Daytona have been wonderful, taking us to all the sites, providing us with facts and history about the area and preparing a home cooked dinner every night. Diann and Paul are the world’s best hosts. Best of all, they are my family. Niece Diann Gardner is my brother Chris’s daughter and Nephew Steve Black is my sister Marie’s son. We lost track of each other 40 some years ago. In 2010 another distant relative Ashley Pritchard found all of us and we started to communicate again. Diann and Paul drove across the country in 2011 and visited with us in Clearwater.  She invited us to come to Nevada. She even offered to give us her home for our stay in Nevada and she did just that. Nephew Steve drove down from the Sacramento area to see his long lost uncle. He joined us on the Virginia City and Squaw Valley journeys. Steve was happy to know that he had an uncle that was still alive!

We had an excellent dinner at J’s Bistro in historic Dayton to wrap up this wonderful family reunion.

Love you guys!