We awoke to a beautimus day, the whole landscape
looked as though it had been scrubbed clean by the storm the previous
evening. By the looks of it, we must
have gotten more rain than expected, no complaints here though! A quick look around and we found our first
victims of the morning, the closest convenience store with piping hot
COFFEE!! After a quick java and lottery
ticket run (a bad habit I have acquired after 1st leaving Bama), I
was making us a healthier~than~eating~out breakfast, I’m getting really good at
doing one pot dishes while on the road.
This way I didn’t have to worry about doing the dishes at that moment with
no water and I wouldn’t have a stack of dirty ones waiting on me when we landed
in the new spot, saves me a ton of headaches.
We were ready to hit the road and realized we
needed to scratch off the tickets before crossing into another state. We won; only
a few dollars, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, or so I’ve always been
told. I took the winning ticket in and
traded it for more, it was a winner too!! After a total of 3 trips to the
store, more tickets and few extra dollars, I was done playing when the winning
stopped.
Around
9 or so we were pulling onto the Interstate again, heading north towards Omaha,
but never crossing the Nebraska line.
The day was a wonderful carefree day as we puttered along through the
great Midwest, always looking for the new sights just over the next hill. The lil one and I listen and sing along to
all sorts of music, the playlist is open to anything from Alan Jackson to
Zeppelin and everything in between.
The lil
one has come up with all sorts of traveling games that tie in with the home
schooling, it changes with the moods.
Some days we’re looking for numbers and shapes, other days we’re
counting how many of the ABC’s we can find.
This was a lot of fun when in the south but much harder the farther
north we go as the road signs are fewer and farther in between, like the gas
stations. We’ve tried the
color~of~the~next~car game to no avail, there are just too many cars and trucks
on our highways and Interstates. If the lil one wanted to, a ride with daddy is
always possible, the choice is just always made to ride with mommy, who has the
A/C and music; daddy gets the dog for company on these long hours.
After
many hours on the road, a total of almost 50 we finally landed in Sioux Falls,
SD. Normally this trip would take
approximately 26 hours, we call this ripple in the time continuum ‘RV Time’, it
is approximately double the normal time a trip should take a normal family
driving a normal vehicle. With us ALWAYS
passing thru these unseen ripples I have learned to just double the amount of
time estimated, we’re usually not far off, unless of course we’re a day or MORE,
later than planned.
Until next time…..
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not
intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
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