Days 127-129 - Thursday to Sunday 10/22-24/2026 - Harrah's Kansas City to Sweet Home Alabama (Home)

Happy Anniversary to us!!  It's been a blast, and we can't wait for the next 32 years!! 💕

On Thursday, our 32nd wedding anniversary,  (here we are in our 1994 engagement photo 😂)

we slept in and enjoyed a needed rest at our very nice spacious hotel room (free) at Harrah's Kansas City with a great window view, a large walk-in shower, and all the amenities of home.  We headed out to the casino to play for a while before dinner.  We celebrated with some champagne

and played slot games and laughed a lot - and we earned enough points to take home a 28L Dual-Compartment Carhartt backpack as a gift! 

 

Our next stop was to the Gordon Ramsay Steak restaurant, which was located in the casino 

where we continued our celebration with a nice bottle of Mumm Napa Prestige Cuvée Brut (we had an awesome server)

and a fantastic dinner for two.  Mike ordered a caesar salad, crab cake, and dry aged ribeye, and I chose lobster bisque with lobster salad and lobster risotto. 

Everything was so good!  Our server truly was awesome, and it was a magical evening for both of us.  We got our sticky toffee pudding dessert to-go (and we had another dessert added to our bag too - possibly an anniversary gift from the restaurant?),

then headed back to the casino to play some more slots. 

Mike ended up heading back to our room after a while to relax, and I stayed in the casino for a good bit to play some more.

 

 

 

Mike checked on the kitties back in ER150 in their personalized RV spot in the parking lot and gave Cleo her insulin.  We both slept great.

On Friday we had late checkout at noon, so we took our time getting ready and got back on the road.  We stopped at Osceola Cheese in Missouri (doesn't everybody when they pass by?),

home of over 275 varieties of cheese, and picked up a few to try.  We were craving breakfast food so we stopped in Springfield at Waffle House - obviously Mike couldn't find his hair brush or a hat to put on but he was really really hungry... ;).

After some great comfort food we continued on to Jonesboro, Arkansas where we would spend the night in the Walmart parking lot, driving a total of about 400 miles.  We ate our leftover sticky toffee pudding and then got some sleep.

Saturday morning we got on the road in time to listen to the Auburn-LSU game on SiriusXM while driving.  There was a lot of construction in Arkansas, and the roads and traffic were so terrible around the Memphis area, but we made it safely back home to Sweet Home Alabama

at around 6:30 pm, driving around 410 miles.  We split an Arby's sandwich for lunch, and passed right by the Talladega Superspeedway where folks were getting ready for the YellaWood 500 NASCAR race on Sunday.

Once back in our home town we picked up some fried chicken to-go for dinner later.  And when we arrived back at our house, the kitties darted around like crazy in all their new-found space.  

It seems surreal to be back home and it will take us a while to digest the unbelievable experiences of the last four (4) months.  Keeping the blog has been a lot of work, but we are so happy to have recorded our adventures for ourselves and to share with our loved ones and friends we have made along the way.  We will look back on this "trip of a lifetime" with gratitude and awe, and we appreciate everyone who has shared our adventure, encouraged us on our journey, and encountered us on the road.  We wish safe, happy travels to all of you.  What a ride it was!!

We will make a final post in a few days to recap our trip and our thoughts.

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