Day 34 Council Bluffs to home

Had breakfast and got away from Council Bluffs around 10. Nice easy drive as always on this stretch, as long as the weather is good. WDAZ Fargo Last year reported on good friday, high winds and a foot of snow in the Dakotas...thankfully not the case this year.

Got to the border around 7:30 and just as we hoped, there were two lanes open and three cars in each lane ahead of us. When it was our turn, the normal and not so normal questions occurred. Q. When did you leave Canada? A. March 1st Q Where did you go A Pharr Texas...that's Pharr not far...Q how much are you bring back
A $1240 Q you bringing back any good for anyone else A no (hard to fathom why this would matter other than if a drug dealer gave you a package to bring back for them...and sure enough Q Are you bringing back any packages A no. Now for a couple of strange questions Q So what was going on in Pharr A we have a trailer there and go every year for a month (Did he really want me to tell him about the HUD festival and Jake Cortez performing at the Santa Fe Steakhouse?) Then Q how did you get there A we drove (Did he really want me to say we walked or flew?) Anyway I was getting tired of looking at him straight in the eyes without blinking, so off we went without any further questions.

This was easy, but....in the future, with the elevated levels for bringing goods back, one can only imagine how long the lineups are going to be. $200 each for 24 hour stays from the previous $50. There should be a very large contingent of people going for one day, especially families of 4 who can then bring back a total of $800. Then 48 hours or longer $800 each, so a family of 4 could bring back $3,200. Previously Katie and I could bring back $750 each for a month, now we get a whopping increase of $50 Whooopeee! Something wrong with this picture! Perhaps we should go by X amount per car instead of how many people you can pack in.

We picked up some supper, as the fridge was bare, and on Good Friday nothing much open other than Seven Eleven. Funny thing happened at breakfast when I asked the waitress what was open for Good Friday. She basically said everything....we're Americans and laughed heartily!.

I've just about had it with the idiots who drive at 80 miles an hour holding a cell phone in their hand, passing cars, and texting, checking emails, and/or talking at the same time. Seems like this is now about every third car. Can't even leave the cell phone alone for a minute or so, might miss the opportunity to instruct the world how to save itself! Grrrrrr. So ends my rant for the day.

But...we are home safe and sound, happy and healthy (except for Katie's foot) and regardless we had a great holiday, and got to spend time with good friends, and had lots of great conversation and a ton of laughs. What could be better than that?

Now it's time to get down to serious business, gym, walking, and proper eating. Katie and I have decided to go back to vegan routine, for how long not sure.

And so...time to sign off the blogging thing..until next year...if the lord is willing and the creek don't rise.

Thanks to all of you who have been following...hope you enjoyed another year of our adventures.

For those of you not on facebook or twitter...might do one more post about the results of Katie's Doctor's appt about her foot on Tuesday.

and so ends another great day in the Red River Valley