Tom So… We made it home safely. Spent Friday night at Mom’s. Saturday’s drive home was pretty direct. It was only about 385 miles and weather was pretty good until we got close to the coast. Weather on the coast was pretty bad; there were 10 people struck by lightning on the beach. Ending stats for … Read more
Yesterday was a pretty short day, much like today will be. We left Omaha around 9:30 and it was an easy drive to St. Louis. Wasn’t really a lot of traffic but there were some lane closings here and there for construction. Today is the last official day of our vacation, we’ll arrive home tomorrow. … Read more
Yesterday was a busy day. Was the first of our changed plans. We were supposed to drive to Independence Missouri but decided to split the last three days of driving into four. We went to Wall Drug in Wall, SD yesterday and had Brunch there. We moseyed around the ‘store” for about an hour and … Read more
We ate at this really cool place last night. Was hard not to look around at the “junk” on the wall. Sanford’s is named after the old hit TV show, Sanford and Son… If you HAVEN’T seen the show, Fred Sanford was in the salvage (junk) business… the decorations on the walls here were just … Read more
Starting to get a little tired of traveling… not too bad, was just a bit boring today when the scenery didn’t have too much variety… It got much more pleasant once we reached the Black Hills. We stopped in a Wal-Mart for souvenir playing cards for Nan’s collection and we were treated to watching a … Read more