Heading West on the Rumble Strip

We left from the church at 7:00 a.m.  The day started out sunny but by the time we crossed into Missouri it became cloudy and not long after, the rain came.  We drove through the rain for about 3 hours.  It wasn't hard so we kept on going.  Except for the drive from the church, we were on four lanes all the way.  Carol seems to pull to the right so we ended up on the rumble strips running along the road.   Normally, I would ask him if he wanted me to drive; but not today because I didn't want to drive this truck.  We just kept heading west on and off on the rumble strip.

We drove 525 miles and are in a motel in York, Nebraska.  We aren't able to drive as fast as normal.  Carol tried to hold 55 MPH but that didn't always happen.  We are tired and looking forward to a good night's rest before we face the 425 miles ahead to Fort Collins.  We are anxiously watching the weather channel.  It is predicting a sleet/snow mix tomorrow for western Nebraska and 2 inches of snow for Fort Collins.  This is definitely one time we hope the weatherman is wrong.  John and Linda are taking the southern route to Fort Collins (I-70 across Kansas).  They are just outside the western edge of Topeka.  They don't plan to get to Fort Collins until sometime on Friday.

We began our day with a beautiful sunrise over the corn fields of Central Illinois.

This is the way we are traveling to Fort Collins, Colorado.

The Missouri River just outside of Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Today we crossed the Illinois, Mississippi and Platte River in addition to the Missouri.

We ended our day with this sunset over I-80 west in Nebraska.