As much as we enjoyed our road trip, Jeanine and I were ready to sleep in our own bed. We decided to complete our ~3,000-mile journey with a 14-hour push for home. We stopped for breakfast and a short hike at the Big Meadows Lodge in the Shenandoah National Park but otherwise just kept heading north. Although the foliage was past peak, even the muted colors created a lovely natural quilt to cover the rolling mountains.