Day: Who Knows🤣

Today is our 15th day of this trip.  Today is Friday and we left out two weeks ago today.  We are officially Ready To Come Home!!!

Daniel and I decided to drop in at a CrossFit gym that we found in Sioux City, Iowa this morning.  It was called Beo and we tried to reach out to the owner last night to ask about coming to a morning class.  She never replied back so we truly “dropped in” on her this morning when we arrived at 6AM. She was very nice though and welcomed us to join in.  We participated in a great workout and enjoyed the company of the nice folks there.  

Once we finished, we headed back to the hotel and we all got ready and ate breakfast. We hit the road and had nothing planned for the day except driving as far as we can to get home.  

What is interesting about this area is that even though we are in Iowa, We are driving down the interstate next to the Missouri River and Nebraska is just across the river. We never entered into Nebraska, even when we traveled right through Omaha (or outskirts of it). We crossed the Missouri River several times. We stopped outside of Kansas City, MO to eat at Chik-fil-a for lunch.  It’s been a while since we’ve seen one and boy have we missed it.  

I drove the afternoon and took us through St. Louis.  Originally, we had planned to stop and see the Arch, even ride the team to the top, but we just wanted to keep going and get closer to getting home.  We actually went to the Arch on our road trip 10 years ago. You can look back in the archives of this blog to read about it.  Now, Annessa, Andrew and Logan did stop in St. Louis and went up in the arch.  

We ate dinner outside of St. Louis in O’Fallon, Illinois. We ate at a place called Lion’s Choice.  It was similar to Arby’s in that they had roast beef sandwiches but the taste was a little different.  It was good. Maybe we will have one open down south closer to home sometime in the future.  We had talked about staying the night here, driving a little further south to Paducah, KY to stay or just keep driving (we were 6.5 hours from home and it was 5:00.  We voted and decided to drive to Paducah, 2.5 hours more.  So that’s what we are doing now.  When we get up in the morning, we will have around 4 hours to drive home.  

It’s been a great trip with lots of memories made, lots of laughs, a few tears, lots of food, skinned up knees, upset stomachs, sore muscles and tons of photos to document all the great things we’ve seen and done. Thanks to all of you who have followed along and especially for the prayers for our safety.  A HUGE shoutout to my mom and Daniel’s for taking care of our house, Thor and checking the garden.  Thanks to Tyler Darling for mowing our grass. Thanks to Eli Cryer for taking good care of our chickens and sending us daily pics of them.  😌

Until the next road trip…..Adios Amigos!!❤️❤️❤️