Move to Georgia Day 6 (July 23rd)

Today we left Salina, Kansas and headed for St. Louis. We passed Ft. Riley where Will had gone to Army Advanced Camp long ago in college.

We are all getting pretty tired of being on the road, but excited because we are only two days away from Birmingham.

It's getting greener and less flat.

The whole trip I have been having difficulty taking pictures of those Welcome to "state" signs, and this one is supposed to say "Missouri". If you look closely you can see it on the right.

I wish I had tracked gas prices the whole trip.

They were at $4.27 when we left Washington.

St. Louis!!! We stopped here on our way out to Washington, and it was so much fun to go to the arch. Baylee had been terrified to go and stayed down with Will, who had been up before. So this time, I stayed with Sadie outside, while Will took Baylee for the first time and Cody for the second.

Going up.

They're at the top.

Looking down.

Our van.

The Mississippi River. The floods had just happened weeks before this and it was sad to see how high the water still was.

If you look really hard at the shady part of the lawn you can see Sadie and me.

Coming down.

I forgot to mention it was a beautiful day. 84 degrees and breezy. All done.

We got back in the car after that nice break and headed for Evansville Indiana. The farms of Southern Illinois reminded me of where I grew up in Central New York State. I loved them.

It's a long story of how we ended up in Indiana, but the short version is that we wanted a nice hotel and Evansville was the only semi-big town in a path that we could take. The hotel in Salina (a really small town) was not very good and none of us slept well. It was eight miles longer to go through Indiana than it would have been to turn south and go straight to Kentucky, so we were able to get a great room with lots of help from my sister Jenai--Thanks, Nai! I think she helped us out just about every day by looking something up for us on the internet.

So we spent a peaceful night in Evansville.