HEADING HOME....

We left Orlando at 5:30am on Monday and drove to the East side of St. Louis. Stopped in O'Fallon and stayed the night. It was another long day, but we wanted to get home as early as possible on Tuesday because we know there's a lot of snow and not sure what will be waiting for us. It's easier to blow snow during the daylight hours.

Left this morning at 6 and will be making a quick stop for breakfast. Will also be making a stop in Iowa City to check in with our granddaughter, Kayla, Mike and Stacey's oldest. That will give us a chance to stretch before our last leg of the journey. Should arrive home by 1pm.

I am so disappointed every time I try to Blog when I'm away from home. Again I had trouble downloading pictures. And what fun is the narrative without a visual? I sent an email to those I thought might be trying to follow us to Florida and back to let you know that I had posted my pictures on my Facebook page. If I missed anyone, I apologize. Just go to Facebook.com and type in my name in the Search field. I have 3 Albums of pictures for our trip. If you're not familiar with Facebook -- just click on an album and it will open up all the pictures. I think I typed in a comment for each one to try give an accounting of what was happening.

I am going to rethink the value of my Blog. Pictures are much easier to load on Facebook. If I can find a way to do some journaling along with it, I may go that way. I have always been opposed to Facebook because I don't want to deal with all that 'Friends' business. I'll investigate some and make a decision after we get home.

We've had really good traveling, both coming and going. The roads have been perfect and we've not even encountered heavy traffic going thru Atlanta or St. Louis. It's been pretty fun with Mike and Stacey. They have such a good sense of humor. But, we're all tired and anxious for the trip to be over. It was amazing to see Brad and we are looking forward to their visit this summer.

Til later.....