The Road Trip, part 20

Day 19 -- Tucson one more day

A kick-back morning, preparing for the long drive home (nearly 900 miles). We're sort-of thinking of doing it in one long stretch, Val and I switching off and sleeping in the car, but we'll see. That can work, but it is non-trivial.

Eventually the kids woke up, bounced on the trampoline (fun, but gets the feet very dirty), and played with the dogs. Much of this "playing" entailed feeding them Milk Bones. In particular, Princess, a 120-pound female mastiff, can munch them down like drinking water.

Later in the day, Val borrowed a pickup from Mary and took the kids to the Tucson Children's Museum, where they had plenty of hands-on fun. I didn't go and so cannot give details, but did see the pictures, and it looked like a typical kid's museum, let them have fun while sneaking in bits of science and technology and history and so on. They came back happy and tired, and that's the breed standard for a good museum.

I did a bit of shopping, restocking what we had depleted from the house and making ready for the last car journey, and then waded into the laundry. We never get away from this, even on the road, and while we can only build up so much -- because we only brought a finite supply of clothes with us -- there's also car blankets and pillow cases to throw in, so it's not exactly a quick exercise. (The primary back seat blanket, upon which the kids sit, really takes a beating.)