Day 7 - The Voyage Home

In the morning, our group leader took a vote: "do we eat breakfast first, and then hit the road, or do we hit the road and eat breakfast somewhere on the way?" The vote was taken to hit the road first, and find breakfast food on the way. We took off like a flash, and headed for Tennessee. We would stop for breakfast somewhere on the way. As we drove through Alabama, morning sun light began to burn off the thick fog in the lower-lying areas. When we reached the Alabama-Tennessee border, most of the fog was gone. North of Nashville, we pulled into a McDonalds and enjoyed another chance to hang out while we ate breakfast.

But we stayed on schedule also, breezing along the interstates on New Year's Day 2007. On the way home, one of the wannabe muckers said that even though he hadn't been in a team involved in mucking and gutting a house, he had enjoyed the trip. That was good to hear, because I had thought the same thing. Most of the trip home, we listened to music that the group leader had ripped to his laptop's hard drive on the Windows Media Player. We stopped in Kentucky for refueling and bathroom breaks, and then hit the road again. As the afternoon wore on into evening, we crossed back into Ohio and reached Columbus at about 6:00pm. We formed a circle for a final prayer, and afterward, said our goodbyes.

Dad drove me home, and I got to enjoy a belated 2006 Christmas with the family at the end of the long trip.