day 16

well, we are home. it feels good, only because we're not in the car and we are able to do laundry and eat out of a refridgerator. but it is quite sad to be at the end of our amazing vacation.

we got up and packed the car, and headed out of zion at about 7:30. which, as i remembered later, is actually 6:30 pacific time, which means we didn't need to get up so early, but whatev. we had breakfast at IHOP in st. george, stopped at a lovely gas station somewhere in nevada, had lunch in some crazy fast food conglomeration in barstow, and stopped near hemet so jeff could pee. yep, it was a tour of places i can use to make the memories of our awesome trip even more incredible and unreal.

our car was such a champ on this trip. it travelled over THREE THOUSAND MILES. its average mpg over the whole trip was over 42, it never gave us any trouble, never broke down, and it let us cram it full of way too much. it rocks.

jeff has been incredible as well. he has driven a good 85 to 90% of this trip, he seems to have an inability to complain even in freezing weather, he put up with my couple of small freak-outs, he hiked up crazy cliffs even with two crappy knees, and he took a ton of absolutely beautiful pictures which you will hopefully see at some point. he is amazing.

we have to get back to the real world at some point. jeff works saturday and i'll be going back on monday. but we're already thinking about ideas for future trips. this has been phenomenal in so many ways. thank you for reading!

em.