Road Trip Blogs: Home at last!

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We're home, we're home!

That's right, as of 2 AM this morning we are back at our place, with my things unloaded, and I'm typing this from my own computer for the first time since January!

My keyboard is much clickier than I remembered :D

Ms. Joyce has been on the phone with insurance folks, car repair folks, and tow companies for two days, and that's ON TOP of everything else like organizing a rental and more, so the next couple days from us are probably gonna be relatively quiet: we have some projects we want to work on if we feel up to it, but most of what we're gonna be doing is resting up from our trip.

The good news:

--My stuff made it to California safely!
--The people of Moriarty New Mexico are amazing.
--The only thing wrong at the house when we got back was a bag of mushrooms that had gone bad in the fridge (stinky, but manageable.)

The bad news:

--We returned the rental today, so no car for a bit (but we have rides if we need.)
--The rental was a 2019 Corolla. Not the worst car in the world... but definitely not on our To Buy list.
--The companies are giving Ms. Joyce a bit of a runaround, as they do. It seems less like malicious-ness than incompetence... but it's still been frustrating.
--WE. ARE. TIRED.

So... yep. We're home, we're safe. If we were gonna get stuck anywhere between here and Arkansas, I feel like we were VERY lucky it happened in New Mexico: beautiful place, not the most convenient for travel (in so many ways,) but yeah. Even in as small a place as we were the Family Dollar had Pride tees on proud display at the front of the store.

Our plans for the next few days are to try and get hold of a new car (can't wait a month to *possibly* get a working one back, don't wanna drive 1k miles to try and get it back either.) Later this evening I'll be taking a very long, very badly needed bath, and this weekend I'll work on unpacking my stuff.

I love my family... but I very much hope I never see Arkansas again.

We love you all, and we'll be updating you with more info as we can.

Melanie E.

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