We made it home!! YAY!! Started out at 7 a.m. from Sherman, TX and arrived home, in Wisconsin about 10:30 p.m. John drove the whole way, he is beat, and headed to bed as soon as we got things inside. I'll unwind and post some photos...views from the passenger seat today....
John seemed to take great delight in torturing me as we drove home.... all these GREAT JUNK SHOPS... and we didn't stop at any of them!!
Some of these photos are blurry ... I think because John sped up as we drove past them just so I couldn't jump out to see them.. haha..*L*
Alot of these photos are not in order of how we traveled home ... some bridges, old buildings in St. Louis ... Semi's and a big River (don't remember what river)...
Another HOT day too... 101 in Missouri (misery).
We saw quite a few accidents, looked like bad ones too, and as we traveled it seemed they were happening within shorter periods of time to when we came upon them. The bad one in Dallas yesterday was 2 hours before we came upon it... there was another one where a car had driven thru a guard rail, down an embankment, and the rescue squad had just pulled up to it when we drove past... and then there was THIS scary one!! It happened within seconds of us ... a short ways past an exit that said Dry Gulch, USA, we came up over a small hill, and there was a semi trailer tipped over in the medium strip... the dust was still flying in the air, and we had seen cars in the opposite lanes swerving off the road as we came over the hill...wondered what was going on, evidently the trailer was headed for them, but luckily tipped over when it hit the ditch...yikes!! The semi was hauling a double trailer, and the back one disconnected. No one was hurt, and the semi was pulled over, along with other cars that stopped to see if they could help, and probably to calm down after such a close call!!
We were thanking God for our safety in travel for sure!!
More interesting things along the way....
John DID offer to stop at the Worlds Largest Rocking Chair thing...however when we came to the exit, it didn't appear to be anywhere close, so we decided to just keep driving..still a long way from home at this point.
But when we stopped for gas, there was Larry's place that was next door, so I ran over to look thru it for treasures... but, it was mostly coke collectables...dang!
Stopped for a late lunch sandwich at the Indian statue truck stop, just before the Oklahoma Tollway...
Ohhh, and saw this amazing tightrope walking horse... *G* heh heh...
As we entered Illinois we started getting into some stormy weather... these clouds looked pretty ominous....
Luckily the worst part of the storms we avoided ... just some rain.... and finally our exit to Wisconsin... YAY!!
Thank you Lord for the great visit with Paul, for our safe travels, and nice time!
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