The Road Home
The road home We have been traveling in the truck and travel trailer since May 18 and while it has been a grand adventure we have started to feel the tug of home working on us. I don’t think our lack of planning for the return trip was the root cause of this, but it almost certainly exasperated it. In the days prior to our leaving Los Alamos we had discussed some stops on the 2000+/- mile journey back to South Carolina. I felt it prudent to have an itinerary to suppress the Beeline syndrome (my title for it) from turning the trip into a race to the finish. The Beeline syndrome is the compulsion to run the shortest and fastest roads when you are on a course for home. Texas was in the midst of a heat wave, so that was out, I suggested Branson Missouri, but Millie said it was the height of the tourist season and it would be crowded. We talked about Florida, but not seriously as that would have put a big bow in our trajectory. We did have to get home in a reasonable time for obligations