We’re on our way to Springfield, Missouri for Shaundra’s baptism on Saturday. Yesterday saw us in the car for about 12 1/2 hours, arriving in Kearney, Nebraska about 8 p.m. CDT yesterday evening. We were definitely tired of being in the car! The plan was to drive at least as far as North Platte, Nebraska and we did that plus another hundred miles. We’ve got about eight hours to drive today. It’ll be nice to be with James and his family for a couple of days.

The presidential primary season officially started yesterday with the Iowa Caucuses. That is consuming the news. For me the big news is the storm coming ashore in California today that is forecast to drop about ten feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains as it makes its way eastward. We’ll be driving home in whatever is left of that storm on Tuesday. Oh joy.

We’ll be leaving Kearney behind in about 30 minutes. Next stop: Springfield, Missouri.