Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

We made it safely home.  It took 8-9 hours a day of driving.  Although we had great weather, the traffic was horrendous - going down was bad, probably because of the number of cars going south to see the eclipse.  And we were traveling on Saturday and Sunday.  The return was tough because of road construction.  It does get depressing when you are driving on a red road, stopping and starting, and Siri says, "The left lane is closed three miles ahead.  You are still on the fastest route."

I think we'll stay put for a while.

"Where are the food pictures?" you may wonder.  Good question.  Thinking that food might be a problem, we had packed quite a bit of provender:  homemade whole-wheat rolls, homemade altoids, cheese, crackers, several kinds of pâté, soups, bananas, tuna, canned chicken (from Aldis, and it's surprisingly good), soda, pretzels, popcorn.

On our list of things to do was a BBQ restaurant, but we were too tired to stop on Sunday.  Again, traffic was terrible.  It was the last hour of driving on the second day, and we still had that hour of twisty-turny single lane road to the BnB.  We thought about going down the mountain on Monday, but the fear of not returning in time because of traffic made us rethink that. . . - combined with the fact that the restaurant is closed on Mondays.  So Tuesday, we ventured off the mountain, down the twisty-turny single lane road.  We only had to pull over twice and to back up once.  Traffic, surprisingly, was worse.  We could see no reason for the traffic, but we were looking forward to BBQ.  We got to the restaurant early and sat in the parking lot for 15 minutes before opening time.  D walked around back and talked to someone.  "What time do you open? he asked.   "11 o'clock on Wednesday," she answered.  He figured she was confused about the day, since it was Tuesday.  We waited until 11 and someone came out and told the waiting folks that they were not going to open because they had opened on Monday for the eclipse.

So we are home safe, having had an awesome experience, but with no food pictures. . .