Home, Sweet Home!! Much as we enjoy traveling to see new things, make new friends, visit with family, or just have an adventure, there is still great pleasure in coming back home and find all well and good there. Because we had had the mail and newspaper held, there wasn't even a pile of papers to paw through or mail to worry about. That will all have to wait until tomorrow.
The drive home was again uneventful, made almost painless by listening to a book on tape (a murder mystery by Nevada Barr). In fact, since there was only 10 minutes of the book left when we got home we were tempted to just drive around town for a while to finish it off. We did hit some very wet spots on the way back including a spot down by Coalinga where it was pouring so hard that passing trucks was really an act of faith. With wipers going full speed, we could still barely see the car in front of us and the truck we were passing.
We did have two little unsettling things at the hotel. Our room was on the ground floor, at the end of the building closest to the parking lot. When we got back late last night, Carolyn noticed that the screen was ajar like someone had tried to remove it. The lights in our room had also been left on and we hadn't done that. We don't have a lot to steal except for two company owned laptop computers. At least we had had the foresight to "hide" them in the closet so they wouldn't be quite as tempting from the window or by people walking down the hall when the maid had the door propped open.
We approached the room cautiously. Everything seemed to be in place and the door locked appropriately. The room had been made up by the maid and none of our stuff seemed to be out of place. The computers were still in the closet. However, the window was unlatched. It also had been blocked so that it couldn't be opened more than 6 inches and that probably saved us. Makes one wonder if room convenience and accessibility are all that desirable.
The second unsettling thing was temporarily losing our laundry bag this morning. We had used a white garbage bag and we couldn't find it this morning. We were almost sure that the maid had thrown it away as garbage. Fortunately, we had hidden it away in the closet as well so we finally found it while we were packing to leave.
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