Remember how I bragged about the lack of wind in the early
part of our trip. Well, we’ve been chased home by high winds since Friday so no
more bragging. The best part about today’s wind is that we were heading north
by northeast all day and the winds were coming from south by southwest all day
which meant a pretty strong tail wind.
Our gas mileage reflected the wind assist as we averaged 23
mpg all the way home to Lapeer with the wind assist. It didn’t hurt that I drafted a “Schnuck’s”
semi-truck and trailer for about 45 minutes this morning.
One of the things I forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog
post was a loud conversation that we overheard at dinner last night. Two
couples were at the next table and one of the older men was talking about his
experience at the doctor.
At one point the man was loudly talking about how he
preferred the old time medicine. A remedy that he recalled from his youth was a
compress his father made out of cow manure to help him with a boil he had on
his neck. He was trying to convince his company that this was a very effective
home remedy.
We enjoyed listening to the discussion even if it wasn’t the
most pleasant of dinner time conversations.
Other than having to listen to the Detroit Lions lose another game, the trip was easy and we arrived home in time to have dinner
with our friends Pam and Greg.
As always there’s no place like home and we will remember the
wonderful memories of another trip for a long, long time. We'll see you again here in January when we head south for Tucson.
Mileage out: 31836
Time out: 7:39 a.m. (Central Standard Time)
Mileage in: 32361
Time in: 4:50 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
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