Home again

It seems inevitable that when we approach the end of our trip that the blog gets pushed to one side, perhaps I don't like writing about endings, or perhaps we are too busy with unnoteworthy mundane things like packing up for it to be a priority.
However, we are now home so this piece is a retrospective of the last three weeks.
We left San Juan Bautiste to drive to our friends Jan and Pete near Merced and are so grateful to them for storing our trailer on their mule field. We had a very pleasant week with them cleaning and preparing the rig for what promises to be a long hot summer.
We said our farewells to Pete and Jan and traveled to San Leandro to stay with our other friends Rich and Debra who live close to our exit airport. We had a great time with them. We visited their church, which was very interesting, we also had a Japanese Hana meal for the first time, also very interesting. Not to mention another trip to the Ice Cream Parlor. We had the time to take a couple of side trips to Oakland which were fun as well.
All to soon we were flying out to take a short break in Florida on the way home. We were again going to Connie and Jim's Bluegrass Party. This again was a marvelous event, made more amazing because of the health problems that have beset the Harper Household in the last year. Thank you to you both for your love and hospitality. From there we visited with our friends Jim and Kathy at their lovely home tucked away on a bend of the Santa Fe River. Here I fulfilled a life long ambition and got to drive a lawn tractor. Then on to Istachatta to visit with Marilee, where we took a side trip back to Homassassa Springs S.P. to see manatee again. We had a very nice day there. From Istachatta we drove to Orlando airport and flew home on a very uneventful journey (thankfully).
So ends Trip 10 to the Southern California Coast.