Day One, Hour Twelve:
Communications are broken, and hostiles are apparent in the mists around us...
Just kidding! We're having a great time here in the McDonald's in Illinois. We're mainly here for the free WiFi. Across from our table sits the oldest, most dessicated of the billions served. Actually, it's not clear she's a customer, she just sits playing a Tiger Electronics Tetris clone playing the same monophonic 15 second loop of Type A music. There is no one with her, and no meal before her. One of the various Road Mysteries we've encountered.
We've made one unexpected stop at a Sherlock's Book Emporium in Lebanon, TN, which turned out to have neither a large selection nor a hint of class.
We're on our second tank of gas and Alec assures me we're making excellent time. I just keep seeing yellow dashed lines and straight white lines.
Copper continues to be an ideal lap dog; he has woken up exactly three times, at each of our three stops.
We will continue to update from our expected stop at St Louis, Missouri. We'll arrive at about 9 pm EST.
You are making great time. I am really enjoying the trip with you. Too bad that Samuel is not in St. Louis, Missouri to greet you. He has been out there a number of time for work. Btw, don't drive on the bridges.
ReplyDeleteLove you guys, Aunt Lynn
I'm not sure we can avoid the bridges here. I can, however, assure you next time we consider crossing the country it will be by plane.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that you will be on safe ones, but bridges is why Samuel has spent so much time this last year in Missouri. His engineering firm had a multi million dollar contract to engineer the repair work on something like 600 bridges. He showed us pictures of bridges and some of them were in bad shape, scary shape.
ReplyDeleteY'all are doing great. Love hearing from you and you will probably hear more from me than you want! lol
The only bridge I've noticed so far is the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge from Illinois to Missouri across the Mississippi River. It was a beautiful approach with the sun setting behind the Gateway Arch.
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