This is the most amazing thing. We’re driving across Missouri (just going through Columbia on I-70), Nina is driving, I’m in the passenger seat, connected to the internet through my Sprint PCS 3G wireless card, posting to my web log. It wasn’t all that long ago that my connection to the internet was a dial-up connection to a BBS turned Internet Service Provider in Salt Lake City. After connecting, I’d fire up a terminal session and run Pine to read and send e-mail. That was in 1989. We’ve come a long way and I’m looking forward to seeing what all of this looks like in another 14 years.

We’re headed for New Wilmington, PA. We’ll arrive there sometime late tomorrow afternoon. It’s about 2:15 p.m. local time. We’re about two hours from St. Louis and another three hours from the Indiana border. We should get into Indiana without difficulty before stopping for the night. We’re pulling the trailer and have Kendra, Trevor’s daughter, with us. She’s got the back seat all to herself along with the small TV and has been watching videos non-stop.

The trailer is heavy. The front is filled with the furniture and stuff for Dawnmarie, the stuff we went to Spokane to pick up a couple of months ago. So far it’s stayed in position and we’ve got the rest of the trailer available to us. We left Colorado Springs around 1:15 p.m. on Thursday and drove as far as Russell, Kansas. We pulled into a campground, put the feet on the camper down, hooked up water and electricity, and spent the night. We didn’t even unhook from the Suburban. Dinner was at Pizza Hut, Kendra’s favorite food.

We got away this morning about 7 a.m. local time and have been driving pretty much ever since. We stopped at a Kentucky Fried Chicken for lunch and are hoping to be able to drive until 7 or 8 p.m. tonight. That’ll put us at Dawnmarie’s house mid-afternoon on Saturday. It sure is a long ways across country!

It sure is green out here in Missouri. We’ve started getting into the country where trees are growing, although not nearly like Pennsylvania. The wheat fields in Kansas were being harvested. Here in Missouri they’ve still got several weeks left before the harvest. It’s dang hot — only 85 degrees, but quite humid. I’m glad to be in an air-conditioned car. I’m also happy that we’re not in Kansas any more…!