It was 5:15am on Saturday, May 23, 2015 when we were packing the last of our stuff in our 15 passenger van, and leaving our house. It was a beautiful sunrise and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
When we were in Tennessee my little sister got car sick. We got off an exit of the Interstate that led to a rough looking town. On the right side of the road there was a Citgo that looked like it was used more for a pub than a gas station. On the left there was a little plaza, with a Dollar General and a few other stores. The front of every buildings' windows were covered with bars, like the ones on a jail cell. We stopped at the Dollar General, because it looked less crowded. It was a bit of a rough place. We finished changing my little sister, and we got out of there as fast as the speed limit would permit.
We ate sandwiches for lunch a little farther down the Interstate at a rest area in Tennessee. (You find that we ate quite a few sandwiches for lunch the first few days of this trip.) It had just turned to Central time when we ate lunch. It was kind of funny to think that we were eating lunch at 11:00am in Central time but 12:00pm at home in Eastern time.
At about 6:00pm we went through Missouri and we saw the Saint Louis Arch!
By 9:30pm it was getting dark and was raining steadily. (Apparently it was prettier at home in South Carolina, as far as weather, than here in Kansas City, Missouri.) It was hard to see the road because of the fog from the 18-wheelers and the rain.
We got to our hotel in Kansas City, Missouri at about 10:00pm that night. It was a Quality Inn and Suites that was pretty nice. At least it had beds that were more soft to sleep on than each others laps in our 15 passenger van.
We drove through 5 states in 15 hours that day, but there were still longer days and a lot more adventure to come on our trip.
From My Attic,
Eva
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