Linwood Bend

The morning after Heather & Rob's Wedding, we loaded up again and hit the road. Originally we had planned to make the drive to Kansas a 2 day event, but we were feeling good, so decided to plow on through it all in one day.

We left Abingdon as the sun was rising and rolled into Kansas and watched the sunset and continued on well into the night. We drove out of the Appalachian Mountains, across the Mississippi and into the Great Plains.

As we got closer to Wichita, we watched lightning from storms all around us. I forget how you can see so many storms off in the distance here. No hills to get in the way!

We made it to my Dad's house and got everything unloaded before the storm blew in. The boys went directly to sleep and Nate and I followed not much later.

All in all it was 1,010 miles of driving door to door in almost exactly 17 hours. The kids are champs and the built-in outlet in the car was the MVP of the drive so we could charge tablets & phones long after the batteries would normally run out during such a long drive.

This is by far the longest planned drive of the trip. The rest of the trip is mostly 7-9 hours between major destinations. Those will feel like a breeze compared to this one.

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