Time: 1:45pm Mileage: 4,644.4 Driver: Colleen Song: Technicolor Love (New Radicals) The same as South Dakota and yet different somehow. More northern in some way … The gas was old school … full service option, restaurant attached, there were showers for the truckers (Colleen reports that the showers were empty – she checked stalls .. twice.) […]
Time: 12:02pm Mileage: 4,040.2 Driver: Laura Song: Dark Lady (Cher) The birthplace of Larry Wilcox! Plus, of course, national parks, big mountains and other natural wonders. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any national parks, natural wonders, big mountains or even Larry Wilcox.
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 […]
Time: 9:12pm EST Mileage: 3161.6 Driver: Colleen Song: I Want A New Drug (Huey Lewis & the News) Everything’s big in Texas, eh? We’ll be the judge of that! As we enter from Arkansas we are greeted, not by a cheery sign inviting us to enjoy everything that Texas has to offer, but by a ramshackled […]
Time: 8:36pm EST Mileage: 3128.8 Driver: Colleen Song: Celebrate Me Home (Kenny Loggins) OK so we decided to push on – got to love time changes! Home of Razorbacks, Wal-Mart, and Hope (depending on which way you lean polically!)