We are slowly making our long trek home. We left Canada on Monday and the past
couple of days have gone through Michigan, Ohio and Iowa.
We cancelled our motel reservations for Tuesday night and
drove almost three hours further up the road to minimize our drive time for
Wednesday. So we were able to take
our time heading out this morning, which was nice. We were also able to steer
off the main highway as our mood saw fit --- and it did a couple of times.
We went through Madison County and saw some signs for
covered bridges so we stopped by a couple. Pretty cool! We also ended up
driving by John Wayne’s birthplace.
Then we veered off the road to see a tree that is in the
middle of the road. They just built the road around it! That was fun. I touched the big old tree and was
thinking about how old it must be. (My dad – a former timber manager, would be
so proud!) I looked up at it and said, “How old are you big guy?” And my girls
thought it was hysterical. My daughter said, “Are you talking to the tree?” Yes, yes, I was, girls.
Anyways, a little further up the road in Iowa, we had
planned to stop and see the only working Danish windmill in the U.S. I thought
it would be pretty cool. Imagine our disappointment when we got there to see
men working on the windmill! We could barely get a picture without them on the
sides of it and it wasn’t “working.” Pooh! We all lamented about it and
wondered why they couldn’t pick a better time to work on it like early
morning??? Especially when there
were quite a few signs off the freeway advertising it.
Oh well. I do think we discovered the shortest phone booth, though! HA HA
So – now we are driving through Nebraska. Getting closer to
home; which brings bittersweet feelings.
Yes, definitely bittersweet feelings.
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