Road Trip

So far, the road trip has been a success. I may upload a few pictures in a couple of days, but for right now, I'm just writing to tell everyone what Steve and I have been doing since we left Missouri.

We left Thursday afternoon around 2:00 and headed to Lyons, KS to see Jordan (my younger brother) who will be teaching at Lyons High School in the fall. It was a fairly small town which reminded me a lot of Lamar. He made us some delicious chili, then showed us the high school. We spent the rest of the evening watching The Office and having great conversation.

Friday morning, we left Lyons around 9:00. Then we drove the width of Kansas. It was pretty damn boring, but we made it in one piece with most of our sanity in tact. Steve and I brought his parents' walkie talkies for the trip since we are driving separate vehicles. We will both need our vehicles when we get to California, so we rented a U-Haul trailer which Steve is pulling with his pick-up. Anyway, the driving can be mind-numbing, so the idea was that having the walkies would allow us to talk to each other for the duration of the trip ... but unfortunately, one of the walkie's batteries die after talking on it for about 20 minutes, so we haven't been talking much on the road.
Our next stop was Colorado Springs. Steve's best friend Chris lives here and his other best friend Lance flew in from Rapid City to visit us. We got dinner with Chris on Friday then picked Lance up from the airport. I went to bed when we got home, having not slept very much and being exhausted from the drive.
Yesterday Chris took us to downtown Colorado Springs and Garden of the Gods (I just typed "Dogs" instead of "Gods"). We spent almost the entire day with a beer in-hand, and in the evening we went to a barbeque of some friends of Chris' parents. Chris, Lance and Steve played croquet with one of the girls at the barbeque and Lance kicked everyone's ass.
We will be leaving for Flagstaff in the morning, but today looks like a lot of chilling out in Colorado Springs.

Day 4 and the road trip is still a success.