Reflections of My Travel

We actually left 20 minutes earlier than planned this fine Saturday morning. I think that’s the first time that we were ever early leaving out of Orlando for a trip. There was still plenty of holiday traffic out so it ended up taking about an extra hour to get up above Atlanta. We stopped there to visit with Randal’s friends Beth and Jeremy (& family). It was a very nice visit. We then drove on to Wedowee. Since Randal never called his mom to let her know we were coming in that night, we got there after midnight to find all of the beds full. Teresa and Anna Grace were down for a visit as well. Sunday morning we spent some time with my horsies and Sunday afternoon was a large family dinner at Grandma Moore’s. They have a Thanksgiving tradition of having the big gathering the Sunday after. We visited with Grandma Holloway some too. Brenda bought her a tv/vcr that we all took over to her and she looked like she cheered up pretty good. Kept saying that she couldn’t think of anything in the world that she would have liked any better. It was very good to see her like that. Especially since we are still getting reports of her being in poor shape. Monday morning was the big departure day.

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So our adventure begins… This was mostly a driving day. We drove through the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, through Memphis, up through the eastern part of Arkansas and into Missouri. We stopped in St. Louis to visit the Arch. It really is quite an impressive structure. We stopped the other side of St. Louis in Wentzville, MO.

This morning we woke up and went after some cereal bars and milk and we were on our way. We headed across Missouri to Kansas City where we crossed into Kansas so that I could say I’ve been there (and get a picture of the sign). We then went up into Iowa, which I might say is a very desolate drive. Don’t even try to find a McDonald’s along that road. Since the highway insisted on hugging the border of Nebraska the whole way up without actually crossing it, we had to cross into Omaha in order for me to get that state under my belt. There was a very interesting looking dome there that housed the Omaha zoo. Perhaps we will make it back there sometime to see it. We found a Walmart to stock up on supplies in Sioux Falls, SD and as we came out of the store there was snow falling all around us. Very exciting. I figured we would surely have to get much further northwest before we would see any of that.