14-Pics From the Road

  We left our house today to travel up to Detroit to visit with Deanna and Kenny who are good friends and also cousins.  They had to move up to Detroit for work when the Chrysler plant closed here in St. Louis.

Illinois

A shot of the St Louis skyline

 

 

 

Indiana

Indianapolis

Ohio

 

Checking to make sure the luggage and coolers are tight

We pulled off to a rest stop to…well….stop and rest.  We got some food out of the cooler and made some sandwiches to eat while we drove.

 

Lydia has always been an absolute model of a “traveling” dog. She was pretty happy with just laying on somebody’s lap for the entire drive.  In this picture she is wearing her…believe it or not…special “car seat” harness.

I was able to snap a few nice photos while the sun set.

I admire the silhouette of the trees in the sunset

Michigan

“Welcome to Michigan”

Detroit

The “Bridge to Canada” or the Ambassador Bridge

Motorcity

Heading Home

Well today our faces will be headed North as we begin our first day of the drive to home.

Before noon we had the van and trailer loaded and had made sure none of our things had been left behind. Ben and Noah fed the seagulls our old bread:

I was holding Lydia while I was taking pictures and a seagull ran right into her!

Noah made friends with a neighbor just a few doors down…Miss Peggy.

On our way out of town we stopped by what we call, “The US’s smallest Post Office.”

Kate read from “Of Plymouth Plantation” in preparation for Thanksgiving. The road noise was pretty loud so I rigged up a headset that plugged into the van’s sound system.

The sun went down and we were driving on an Alabama highway at 70mph when the car behind of us started flashing their bright headlights. The trailer’s gate was on the ground! Mom pulled over unto the shoulder. We figured that the boxes on the back of the trailer had fallen out the back and our stuff was scattered all along the highway. However, when we checked everything was still there-the bungee cords were just a little bit old and had stretched out from the force of the wind on the gate. We secured the gate and slowly drove a few miles to an exit with a gas station where we could buy some fresh cords. Interestingly enough the town was called Good Hope.

We ate dinner in Columbia, Tennessee and then slept at a hotel in Centerville.