Home again.

I just realized that I neglected to say the results of Rich's heart zapp. Actually, I'll just say, "IT WORKED". His heart is beating normally now and his breathing is much improved and it seems to get better each day. He just has to start getting active again, which he wasn't able to do while his was having the breathing problem. Hooray.

Regarding the return trip from New York:

Turned out the truck was OK after all. Guess it's just an old "warm weather truck" and the temps up north were more than it could bear. The guys put a charge on it overnight and when we got up Monday morning it started right up. Rich drove it to town and filled the tank just to be sure all was well. It was, and we managed to get on the road by 11:00 am. Normally we try to start a long trip around 3 or 4 am. So getting a late start for us meant not being able to get our normal 900 miles on day one of our trip and only got about 550 miles before we had to stop for the night and that left us with about 1000 more miles to go.

I wanted to make that 1000 in two days but Rich loves to drive and he wanted to do it all on Tuesday. So, we did. We started at 8:00 am and arrived home at 12:15 this morning. A long grueling drive and boring for the cats and me, but though he was tired, he truly wanted to do it so we did. When we arrived home we were both exhaused and fell right into bed. But it was oh, so good to sleep in our own bed again.

We took a lazy day today and will probably do the same tomorrow. And of course, there's the laundry to do and the unpacking and other such "after a trip" things to do. The cats are happy to be home and be able to roam the whole house instead of just having only one room to play in.