Road Trip to Oregon Part 5: The trip home

Day 20

The day we had long been dreading had finally arrived. Time to head home. :(

We took our time packing & heading out in the morning. We didn't get to Boise until after 1pm. We stuck with our original plan to get to Ely, NV the first night. It was a long day. We got in around 10pm & went straight to bed. Everyone was pretty cranky.


Day 21

After a quick continental breakfast in our room, we took off. We were on the road by 8:30am. Andy & I decided to try to make it all the way home, because sleeping in our own beds is SO MUCH MORE comfortable than cramming all six of us into a hotel room. Unfortunately, once we put our final destination into our GPS it calculated the remaining drive time as a grueling 12 hours & 45 min to home. So that was a little deflating.

We pushed hard & rarely stopped. We made it to Vegas by lunch. From there we only stopped 1 or 2 more times until we were home. We ate late on the south side of Phoenix, and got home at 9:30pm. We were thrilled to be back in our space & so happy to be out of the car. The cat did not know what to think. He meowed himself horse that evening. And the kids were so wound up that we weren't able to go to sleep until after midnight. But once asleep we all slept like rocks.

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