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City of Salina

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    • Day 1

      First Day of Travel

      June 14, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 91 °F

      Today is the first day of travel away from home this year. I'm headed to South Dakota and Minnesota for reunions.
      I was sluggish getting going this morning. Left my home at 7:30a. I think that worked out well because as I took Grand Ave to I 35 I saw cop cars on southbound I 35 blocking all lanes of traffic. They had had enough time to have officers positioned to direct traffic. So glad I was headed north. The stack of southbound traffic heading into Austin reached 10 miles all through Round Rock.
      After getting out of Central Texas driving became a lot smoother and less congested. Drivers became less pushy or in a hurry.
      Scenery was several sections of turbine generated wind farms. I even passed two trucks hauling propellers. Or maybe it was the same truck that I passed twice. Who knows.
      It stayed sunny and hot all the way to Salina, KS, where I am this first night. Plenty of wind on these plains, though.
      This is the first time I've made a plan to gas up at the Sam's Clubs along my route. I was pleased to see very little difference in pricing of Regular Unleaded. Highest in Waco at 4.49/g. Edmond, OK was 4.44/g and Salina, KS was 4.45/g. Tomorrow I'll see how it is in Grand Island, NE.
      Tonight I ate at a burger joint a short distance from my hotel. A place called Spangles. Fifties themed with Marilyn Monroe in one corner window and Elvis in another. Get a look at the tabletop patterns. I remember this pattern from eons ago. LOL
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    • Day 48

      Kansas

      September 17, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F

      Lots of stops yesterday for dealerships, including Historic HD in Topeka, which is next door to the Evel Knievel Museum. So wish it was open.

      I headed to two dealerships this morning, but the second one isn't anymore. Poop.

      Day 47 mileage: 261.9 (total 9375.9)
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    • Day 2

      Day Two

      January 4, 2021 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 5 °C

      Somerset to Effingham, Illinois

      You might remember that I mentioned that Sammie was indisposed yesterday on the first leg of our trip - well, that also means that she was indisposed throughout the night which means one of us has to get up, get dressed and take her out into the very scenic parking area of the Days Inn.

      All this by way of saying we were not in the best mood when we woke up for Day 2 of this journey, one of us less so then the other. But it’s pretty darn hard to begrudge Sammie efforts on her behalf since we uprooted her from her routine and asked her to sit in the back seat of the car for ten hours. Good thing she can’t talk. And then there was the fact that it was snowing big fat flakes when I went out with the dogs at 7:30 - on a day we were not expecting more snow.

      However, things quickly turned sunnier when, while about to get on Interstate 70 going the wrong way (it’s really like objectively confusing) I noticed a Starbucks! So one breakfast sandwich and two coffee drinks later, we got on 70 going the right way. Yeah! AND the snow had stopped.

      So picture this: we are starting out in Somerset, Pennsylvania (9:30 a.m. departure again) and we are going to end up in Effingham, Illinois, and all we have to do is stay on I 70 the whole way. We are about to drive through Pennsylvania, the tiniest sliver of West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. It’s magic.

      The Pennsylvania land that we drove through was lovely rolling farm land with lots of silos and the feeling that we were in mountains. But winter bleak. We drove through Wheeling, West Virginia which oddly enough resonated with me because I had written about Joe McCarthy as an undergrad, and it was in Wheeling, West Virginia, at a talk before a woman’s club, that he first took out of his attaché case a fistful of papers that he waved around dramatically saying - I have here evidence of Communists in our Government! Next time you think we just escaped the worst political period ever remember Joe McCarthy - he was dispicable too.

      In Ohio we stopped at a lovely rest stop that had lots of park like grounds to walk the dogs and really good vending machines. This is what is important when you travel with two dogs. I also learned at this rest stop that Interstate 70 parallels and sometimes overlaps National Road 40 which has historial significance. National Road 40 is considered to be the first highway in the United States. Both Presidents Washington and Jefferson believed that a trans-Appalachian road was necessary for unifying the country, so this 820-mile long path through Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois is considered the first federally funded road in the United States. When you are travelling on I 70 you will see exits to bring you down to 40 - side trips we are not able to take this time through. If you have some time, though, read about this road - it’s very interesting.

      We rode through Ohio, with our first glimpse of sun in three or four days, pleased to see big cities at Columbus and Dayton, into Indiana with a big city of course at Indianapolis and now here we rest for the night in Effingham, Illinois, having experienced our first time change. Effingham is at the crossroad of major north south roads and you cannot believe the number of trucks that are hunkered down here for the night - thousands. Another thing you won’t believe is that when we got to the office to check in here, there were three men standing in the check in office WITHOUT MASKS!!! Don’t worry, I called in to start the process and only went in after the maskless men exited. What is it with these people? when I see things like this I start to understand how we can have these ridiculous pandemic numbers - people are actually still not wearing masks!

      I have some pictures to download for this post but still have to figure out how to do it. Goodnight! onward to Kansas tomorrow.
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