The road home

With some degree of sadness because our journey was ending, but with anticipation of getting home, we aimed the rig west and drove into the sunset.  The trip home had highlights however!
Hunters Hill Cafe in Rocky Mount, NC had fabulous soul food and easily the best hush puppies we'd had anywhere!
IH-95 now tops IH-35 between SA and Dallas as my least favorite super slab.  All the folks in NY and NJ that have cars and only drive them in the city just go nuts when they get out on the highway headed for Florida for the holidays ... or at least that's my best guess.  With a couple of weeks to calm my nerves, it still sucked - never again!
We did stop at Pedro's South of the Border (the SC/NC border that is) which is Buccees on Mexican jumping beans steroids ... a travel stop with fireworks, multiple restaurants and gas stations, plus amusement park rides!

Our goal was to have more soul food for lunch at Big Momma's in Augusta, GA.  We were devastated when we got to their location and they had moved.  Another phone call and the friendly lady directed us just a few more blocks down the street, where we were treated to perhaps the best fried chicken of the trip, as well as key lime cake!  Mmm-hmmmm.

We did manage one more hunt with Kali outside Montgomery, AL before shutting down near Helena, MS for the night...

All the Escalades and Land Rovers on IH-10 had pretty wreaths and bows, so we stopped at a dollar store, bought some crayons, and improvised..."reindeer" fur from KY was an added touch they didn't have!

Clearing the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge we made stops at Keller Bakery in Lafayette for rum cake and cookies and the Best Stop in Scott for boudin, then crossed back into Texas ... home at last.

With the traveling done - all 16,506.9 miles of it, there's still a list of things to do.  Catch up on the blog is done.  Catch up on two months absence from family, farm, and business will take a while.

Soon I promise to sit down and blog once more with some sort of synopsis, perhaps a link to a slide show for the many photos there's just not time or space to include here, and a little reflection on the time spent with Sophia.

Can say with absolute certainty, if the opportunity for such an adventure with your child ever presents, you absolutely must take it!

More later...thanks for tagging along.