Home again!
A few driving statistics:
6,318 miles driven, over 24 days.
263.25 miles/day.
10.97 mph for 24 days straight. Hey, it’s faster than walking!

La la la…. Listening to our book, thinking about home, in la-la land, whatever. Suddenly, Paul notices the gas gauge needle is lower than we thought it possible to sit. We’ve always considered it near empty if it gets below quarter tank (something to do with the sender position). Now it’s barely above the E. Thankfully, there was a station within a couple of miles. Tank holds 12 US gallons.

Detroit scene on I-75. We have travelled this stretch many times over the last 35+ years. When DW & Christopher (our sons) were younger we would always comment on the various items discarded along the interstate in Detroit. There have been mattresses, tires, chairs. Today I just missed getting a picture of a soggy mattress. This picture doesn’t show the extent of the trash. Don’t recall seeing another interstate or road like it.

Very busy border crossing, but one with many booths. We stopped going through Detroit and opted for Sarnia Ontario / Port Huron Michigan for several years. But wait times at that crossing have increased and we’ve sat for 1-1/2 hours during summer crossings. Detroit has improved the road surface (finally – after 35+ years of being horrid) and so we’re back to favoring the Detroit MI / Windsor ON crossing.

Scenes of crops & farms along the 401. King’s Highway 401, also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway and colloquially as the four-oh-one, stretches from Windsor to the Quebec border. The segment of Highway 401 passing through Toronto is the busiest highway in North America, and one of the widest and busiest in the world. Together with Quebec Autoroute 20, it forms the transportation backbone of the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor, along which over half of Canada’s population resides. The posted speed limit is 100 km/h (62 mph) throughout its length. People around Toronto would love the 80 MPH limit we had in Texas.

Miles driven this trip: 6,318. Speedo total of 22,119 is actually about 1,500 miles on the low side. The day after we got it on the road on August 1, 2009 we drove it to Louisville for the NSRA Nationals, but the speedo wasn’t working. The car has been on the road for a total of 12 months: August through October 2009; May through November 2010; May & June 2011. Car ran and held up beautifully. Thanks, DW, for a job well done!
i enjoyed your pictures. looked like a lot of fun. i would like to take a trip like that some day soon. spring can’t get here fast enough.