We’re home

One day early.  Got in about 19:45 after 10½ hours on the road from West Memphis, Arkansas.

Things we now own that we did not own before the trip began:

• 1995 Toyota T100 pickup; about 150,000 miles on it.  Needs at least a tailpipe before it will pass Texas inspection, possibly more.
• Long-case (“grandmother”) clock with godawful electric works; case built and dial painted by L’s grandfather.
• Two Willcox & Gibbs chain-stitch machines, both with original electric motors:  S/N A680856, mounted on base S/N 24681 and with original W&G foot pedal still attached; S/N A699752, mounted on base S/N 22588 but with no pedal or switch present (maybe never installed).
• Nineteenth-century pressed-tin humpback trunk, mildewed and stinking to the absolute max and full of
• unique genealogical and photographic material from L’s family, much of it primary source material, all also mildewed to the max, and
• incredibly fragile, friable family heirlooms.
• Enormous and expensive limited-edition print, framed and matted, of a wharf owned by L’s great-uncle, with two of the family’s commercial fishing boats tied up to it.
• A set of everyday red-wine glasses.
• L’s mother’s former computer (the Dementor 4400).
• Two 375ml souvenir bottles of special-edition Maker’s Mark bourbon, bought right at the distillery in Loretto, KY and hand-dipped by me in melted wax to seal the caps.

You must bunjee to the replated scanner and paper the buzzard thermals.  Fnord.