Our 16th and final day was just driving, driving and more driving. We were packed up, breakfasted and checked out ready to roll at 8:30 local, 9:30 AM "our" time. With singularly unfortunate timing Marissa had an incipient migraine which she staved off with medications, but said medications also made her drowsy a lot of the time. She did manage to spell John for two good breaks during the long haul, interrupted only minimally for some food and/or drinks and/or gas.
On arrival in Columbus we popped quickly into Marsh for very basics, milk, cream, eggs, bread and an oven ready fresh pizza and we finally pulled into the driveway at 7:15 PM, 10 3/4 hours after starting. Needless to say we were exhausted & only removed the essential minimums from the van.
From start to finish we had driven a grand total of 2714.5 miles!
The next day we unloaded the van, sifted and sorted everything, made essential trips for mail, groceries and so on, shopped to restock Marissa's larder, cleaned/vacuumed the van interior, returned the back bench seat into the van, jam-packed Marissa's car with all her stuff so she could head home and John went out for the final fill of the van. Due to the station's programming limitations instead of a 10 cent/gallon reduction for a car wash (worth about $2.40) he got a free $10 deluxe car wash instead - a small victory! One final shop to fill John's fridge with perishables and the day was done, leaving only the catch-up necessary from being gone for 2 1/2 weeks at the end of the month.
All in all it was a great vacation, despite some weather worries the first few days, which were amply compensated by the glory of the rest of the days, and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.
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