Up before 6:00, as we are taking off for Kansas City today to spend a week with Tommy, Mary, Nick and Marlena. It's dark, without a trace of light, as the sun doesn't rise till 6:55. Fortunately, it's not too cold out, about 40 degrees, so we won't have any snow on our trip, enshallah. We are planning on stopping in Effington, IL, about 600 miles, ten hours from here, as Evie doesn't want to drive in the dark and we have stayed there before. It also has a quite nice steak house next store, with excellent food, from burgers to steaks. Tomorrow, then it will be about six hours to Lee's Summit. I am not looking forward to the drive but am looking forward to seeing the family, especially Marlena's grandparents' day on Monday, our first ever.
We are relaxing at a Hampton Inn, after almost ten hours on the road and 600 miles, a dull, boring ride through middle America, occasional farms broken by crossroads, of truckstops, motels, and restaurants, with huge signs sticking out like necks or trees on a wasteland, signaling a place to eat or stay. We c ould be anywhere in America.
A daily journal of our lives (begun in October 2010), in photos (many taken by my wife, Evie) and words, mostly from our home on Chautauqua Lake, in Western New York, where my wife Evie and I live, after my having retired from teaching English for forty-five years in Hawaii, Turkey, and Ohio. We have three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson, as you will notice if you follow my blog since we often travel to visit them. Photo taken from our back porch on 12/05/2024 at 8:53 AM
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