NC to OR Day 2

Can you say "Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri" three times fast? Those are the states through which we passed today.

Hours driven: 10.5

Getting the day started off right: post run and peanut peanut butter banana rice cake Nashville iced Americano while Jason drives (don't worry, I drive too...actually more than Jason today).




Lake side Illinois picnic? Don't mind if we do!





Second day in a row lake side lunching is awesome!




I pretend to channel Lolita on she and Humbert's cross country adventures:






"Deep Thoughts" from the road today:

Are people from the Midwest made of corn? I can't help but think that they are. There are big skies in the middle of America. Big skies that touch the plains and trick your eyes. Those big skies and that big sun grow big folks.

What are people from the East coast made of? What do people from other parts of the USA think we are made of?

What are people from the West coast made of? What are people from the East coast who move to the West coast made of?



After last night's disgusting night at the Days Inn in East Nashville, tonight we lodge at the the Stoney Creek Inn in St. Joseph Missouri. We are about 30 minutes from the Kansas and Nebraska borders in the hometown of Jesse James AND the starting place of the Pony Express. So, that's cool.

And there's a moose outside this place that looks curiously like my daughter, Edith:




Great way to finish the day: cold beer, cold/clean room.





Tomorrow: long time Nebraska...