Our Third Day

We were lucky today to wait for 45 minutes in the toll road lane to pay our $7.75. We could listen to our books and our iPods and glance around to see everyone else who was on I-80! (I'm trying on the Rose Marie Walls persona from the book I was listening to...she also saw the benefits of popcorn for dinner...) It was a more trying day....but we made it to Cuyahoaga Falls, OH and it really is charming and beautiful. Chip and I are busy discussing "The Fountainhead" (I'm reading it and he is listening to it...lucky!) We had a lovely dinner tonight overlooking the falls and were introduced to a young man who will be running in the 2024 presidential election (he was our waiter, a political science major at Kent State, told him that he has his work cut out for him running against James...) We are safe and sound and on our way to Madison tomorrow. Love you all.

Day Two towards Connecticut

Today we traveled across the rest of Nebraska and through Iowa. Bear started his day with breakfast in bed.... only in a hotel room! We started our day with a huge crash on 1-80 (not us!) -- about 90 minutes into the drive. Three semi's! All of the trailers were completely trashed. Good thing we had stopped for a bathroom break...who knows where we would have been at the time of the crash! That delayed us about 45 minutes. But we had our audio books so we were just chillin'! Iowa was stunningly beautiful. Rolling green hills with white barns and silver silos. The rows and rows of corn were almost peaceful. We pulled off the freeway around 7:30 to catch some pictures in 'sweet light'. We rounded a bend after we had returned to I-80, came down a hill and thought, "What a beautiful river!". We started across the bridge and there was a nice little green sign on the right: "Mississippi River". There you go. We are safely in East Moline, Illinois and will continue on through Illinois and Ohio tomorrow. Love to all of you!

Our First Day on the Road

Well, here we are in North Platte, Nebraska. First of all, thank you to EVERYONE who has been so thoughtful and helpful as we are making this transition. I think you know how hard this has been for both Chip and myself, yet we are both convinced it is the right thing to do...so thank you for your love and support.
Started out around 7:30 this morning. Highlights: Said goodbye to Park City and the hot air balloons. Stopped in Elk Meadow, WY for a bathroom break...black magic marker sign scrawled over the sink in the restroom... "don't drink the water". Oh, man. Then a killer downpour about an hour west of Cheyenne -- couldn't see a thing. Had lunch in Cheyenne, and then meandered (well not really -- it's pretty much a straight shot...) on to Nebraska. And, here we are at the luxurious Quality Inn -- along with bikers and other unique specimen of mankind. Enjoy the photos...and we'll see you tomorrow! (PS...Bear is behaving famously!)