Day 61 - Turn out the lights, the party's over.

We were up at dawn, got ready for the day, dumped the holding tanks and headed for home.

A little after noon we crossed into Michigan and a few hours later pulled into our driveway.

So that's it.  Sixty-one days in a 24' motorhome.  I have to say, it wasn't all that bad.  Not that I want to spend the rest of my days in one of these things, but we made out OK.  I can't get enthused with the full timer RV group.  That life style wouldn't work for us.  The first issue would be Walking Dead or NFL?  See the problem?

We did need alternate transportation a few times that it wasn't available, but not enough that it would have been worth dragging around a car behind us.  Perhaps something like a Vespa scooter would have been good.  The bicycles were worthless.  Nearly everywhere we were, it was a hill climb to use a bike.  We learned to use Uber and that worked well in Las Vegas and Branson.

My best of the best are:

National Park...it's Glacier, Grand Canyon, Sequoia, Carlsbad in that order.  Banff/Lake Louise is over rated.  Yosemite is over crowded.

Best food we experienced...the steak at Amarillo was the best tasting piece of meat I've ever had.  To put that #1 over crab is saying something.  The buffet at the Aria in Las Vegas was a close 2nd. The best value was the $12 Two for Tuesday prime rib buffet at the Route 66 casino.  We didn't eat out much but when we did it was always good.

Best RV Park...East Glacier/St Mary KOA and Oasis Las Vegas.  

We saw a lot and it will take a year to digest it all.  We were concerned about the wild fires when we started out but they were a non issue for the most part except for a few days of compromised visibility in the mountains.  

The stats are like this...

61 days
8113.6 miles in the RV (around 1000 miles more in rental cars)
822.21 gallons of fuel
All in, about $110/day for everything.

Time to start planning 2019.