The Final Leg Home

After an early morning departure from Duluth we tracked along the southern shore of Lake Superior above a low layer of morning scud. To our south we could see the building cumulus associated with the stalled front we had broken through the previous day.

We landed a Newberry, MI (Luce County) to refuel with the cheapest gas we found on the entire trip. We didn't waste time and set off again for the leg across Lake Huron north of Toronto, once again in Canadian airspace but just in transit. We landed some three and a half hours later in Watertown, NY and got ready for the last leg of our long trip.

We noticed the heat and the low visiblity associated with it as we flew the last hour into Great Barrington to be welcomed home by Lori, Shannon, Chris, Adele, Bella and Lydia.




We enjoyed our first home cooked meal in three weeks and shared a few stories of our adventures. If you are a reader of th is blog and would like to read some of them stay tuned. On the trip there was not a lot of inspired writing time as we were focussed on making the next leg or letting down after the previous one. Now we're back I plan to share some of our stories of people and places like our meeting with Beat, the Mayor of Beaver Creek and my meeting in Anchorage with Rod Perry who competed in the very first Iditarod Dog Sled Race. And then there's the story of our prolonged stay in Watson Lake and the folks we encountered there.

Now Chris prepares to return to Australia but luckily we have a few days to decompress first, do some laundry, and enjoy being around family.