Time: 6:01pm Mileage: 3941.1 Driver: Laura Song: If Ever I Leave This World Alive (Flogging Molly) South Dakota – The Promised Land. The state Laura and I planned the whole trip around. Deadwood, The Corn Palace, Mount Rushmore, and the Crazy Horse Memorial. Plus, if Montana is called Big Sky Country, South Dakota sahould be called […]
Time: 3:33pm Mileage: 3834.6 Driver: Laura Song: Hard to Be Humble (Mac Davis) – silently – Ipod issues. Mac was singing his heart out, it just took us a few stabs at getting it hooked up to the car radio properly. Mac never get’s the respect he deserves. Omaha, the Nebraska half of the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro area, […]
Time: 2:24pm Mileage: 3776.1 Driver: Colleen Song: Darling Nikki (Prince and the Revolution) Farmland, farmland, and more farmland. Green for as far as the eye can see and that’s a long way. It too is under major road construction – however, traffic moves, unlike our least favorite state to travel in Indiana.
Time: 1:23pm Mileage: 3696.6 Driver: Colleen Song: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (The Temptations) Beautiful Elwood, KS. What a minute we spent together. First place a Pony Express rider would have landed in Kansas (the route started across the Missouri River in St. Joseph, MO). Ok, I’ve now spent more time working on this post then I spent […]
Time: 9:18am Mileage: 3,443.1 Driver: Colleen Song: I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) A bad morning for wildlife in Arkansas and now Missouri. Possums, cats, an armadillo (?), small deer, and what looked like a wild pig didn’t make it to the other side of the road (none at our hands!). But as we talked about it […]
Time: 7:55am (central time) Mileage: 3,049.8 Driver: Colleen Song: Bel Mir Bist du Schoel (Andrews Sisters) We know we belong to the land And the land we belong to is grand! And when we say Yeeow! Ayipioeeay! We’re only sayin’ You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma O.K. Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain […]