{"id":2401,"date":"2017-07-14T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2017-07-15T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:12:38","slug":"the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2017\/07\/14\/the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"The home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got up and around early again and were on the road at 8:38am for our last leg of this adventure. \u00a0If all went well we would be home about 3:00. \u00a0We took a fuel and restroom break in Rawlins then stopped for lunch at the Colorado border.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Wooohooo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/136797225@N05\/35131757293\/in\/album-72157683526327724\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4309\/35131757293_a095f4f310.jpg\" alt=\"Wooohooo\" width=\"381\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After lunch we were still on target for a 3:00 arrival but arrived 8 minutes after due to Google taking us on some dirt road north of Fort Collins and some of the most ridiculous and crazy traffic we had on our entire trip. \u00a0I had one pretty scary moment where I had to lay on the brakes but thanks to the big honkin&#8217; brakes on the Beast, its exhaust brakes and awesome brake controller he shut down Ava like it was a little utility trailer!!<\/p>\n<p>We got the rig unpacked and the washer and dryer got a major workout after their month long rest. \u00a0I was welcomed home by a stack of mail&#8230;.mostly junk, a few bills and a couple of checks! \u00a0I was also welcomed home by weeds that have taken over many parts of the yard&#8230;.yikes.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Weeds in the bricks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/136797225@N05\/35131756973\/in\/album-72157683526327724\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4235\/35131756973_65737fc33d_n.jpg\" alt=\"Weeds in the bricks\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We treated ourselves to some Balckjack Pizzas for dinner, we sucked up tons of blazing fast, unlimited wifi, used glass fulls of ice for all our beverages, tried flushing regular toilets with a foot lever and generally got lost in all the square footage that this home has!! \u00a0It felt good to be done with long drive days. \u00a0It felt good to be home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHskZjQT7C\">Here <\/a>are a few final pictures of our journey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"flickr_72157683526327724_1760\"><div class=\"slickr-flickr-slideshow landscape medium \"><div class=\"active\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4218\/35900284626_f7a21da151.jpg\" title=\"We&#039;re back!\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>We're back!<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4309\/35131757293_a095f4f310.jpg\" title=\"Wooohooo\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Wooohooo<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4324\/35101165604_0d89513072.jpg\" title=\"Rest stop in CO\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Rest stop in CO<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4300\/35101166244_53499d5d3a.jpg\" title=\"Stack of mail (out of focus sorry)\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Stack of mail (out of focus sorry)<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4323\/35131757203_8143f0c0c0.jpg\" title=\"Tall weed\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Tall weed<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4310\/35101165944_072065c7cd.jpg\" title=\"Weeds in the garden\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Weeds in the garden<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4212\/35131756513_f1dca6532b.jpg\" title=\"Weeds by the stairs\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Weeds by the stairs<\/p><\/div><div><img src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4235\/35131756973_65737fc33d.jpg\" title=\"Weeds in the bricks\" alt=\"\"  \/><p>Weeds in the bricks<\/p><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(\"#flickr_72157683526327724_1760\").data(\"options\",{\"delay\":3000,\"autoplay\":true,\"transition\":500,\"link\":\"next\",\"target\":\"_self\",\"width\":\"\",\"height\":\"\"});<\/script><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got up and around early again and were on the road at 8:38am for our last leg of this adventure. \u00a0If all went well we would be home about 3:00. \u00a0We took a fuel and restroom break in Rawlins then stopped for lunch at the Colorado border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[78,7],"tags":[77,83,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}