Amanda Higgins--Hickory, North Carolina
I must say that is very nice to be making this post from the comfort of home after spending countless hours working from hotels (or not working when the "free internet access" at our hotels was worth what we paid).
We woke up early this morning and left Clarkesville, Arkansas at 5:30 a.m. We got a few hours and a few hundered miles behind us before stopping for breakfast. After eleven days on the road, everyone was anxious to get home and the consensus was to keep stops to a minimum the rest of the day.
We finally made it back into Hickory, North Carolina and into CVCC's parking lot tonight around 8:45. We were all met by our loved ones and friends, who were as happy to see us as we were to see them. Then, we all took our final right of passage for the SouthWest Adventure...we unpacked the van one last time and threw away all the trash.
Eleven days ago we started on an incredible journey and even though we're all back home, it's not over for any of us. We have another class on Friday, final presentations, and we all have a new list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses of people we call friends.
As for this blog, John Setzler and I asked everyone to write something for our final post. Although we plan on wrapping most of it up by Monday, this has truly been an experience to last a lifetime.
2 comments:
Amanda,
Thanks a lot for volunteering to work on this project with me. You put in a lot of late hours every night to get this work done. Your efforts are greatly appreciated :)
John M. Setzler, Jr.
John,
This whole thing could have been a disaster, but thanks to your blogging expertise we managed to pull it off.
Sometimes it was hard for me to describe everything we saw and felt, and as much as I may hate to admit it...the photos spoke when I couldn't find the words.
Thanks for everything,
Amanda
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