The Big Funeral Trip … all 2,312 miles … is complete. We arrived at the Flying J in McCammon at 3:30 this afternoon. Mother and dad then headed the 35 miles east to Soda Springs and Nina (who met us there) and I drove the 20 miles northwest to Pocatello. I started working through some of the pictures last night and hopefully will complete them tomorrow to put up in the picture album. At the time I felt like I had taken a lot of pictures … but now looking at them I probably should have taken many, many more. On problem with my little Sony point-and-shoot digital camera is that the image shown on the small LCD screen might look OK, but the real picture is just a little fuzzy. I think I’ve gotten a good image but then when I look at it on the computer, it isn’t usable.

I’m still pleasantly surprised at how uneventful the entire trip was. The drive down and back were completely problem free. We had about sixty miles of wet roads the entire trip. Dad’s car gets about 34 miles to the gallon so the fuel bills were less than I had expected they would be. For instance, we drove from Cortez, Colorado to Pleasant View, Utah on just over twelve gallons of gas for 410 miles.

The Moab area is just beautiful, particularly with a light dusting of snow. The drive through there this morning was very nice “eye candy” with the red-rocked cliffs dusted with snow. I think we need to go there to spend some vacation time Real Soon Now. Even the drive up Route 6 from I-70 through Price was made much more pleasant by the snow which took away most of the dull grey that otherwise characterizes that landscape.

I’m quite happy to be home, though. My comfy bed is calling … maybe even the hot tub!??! We’ll see what the evening brings. No more driving until tomorrow….

Delon’s burial will be at the Cleveland, Idaho cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. Nina and I will drive over to Soda Springs to collect mother and dad and take them with us to the cemetery. I think I’ll let Nina do the driving!