sometimes the journey is what counts
Whoa. Updating for the first time from Eastern Daylight Time zone and knowing that it's not going to change anytime soon. Weird. We crossed into Ohio tonight and decided to spend the last night on the road here rather than push for Pittsburgh and risk an accident when we're so close to home.
Got to meet up with catiechu on Monday which was lots of fun and involved surprisingly few one-way streets driven down the wrong way. Kansas City probably wouldn't have been nearly so difficult to navigate had half of it not been blocked off for construction. Still, we got to see (and take pictures of) some lovely urban decay, as well as have some most excellent bubble tea. It's just too bad the Indian restaurant next door wasn't open.
Today we went up the arch in St. Louis, and then checked out native american ceremonial mounds nearby before we hit the road. The sun today made up for the spectacular thunderstorm we drove through yesterday - even us cynical Pittsburghers pulled off of the road when the visibility hit less than five feet in front of our car and waited out the worst of it. The lightning was great, though. I've never seen lightning so beautiful in my life. It would be worth coming back to Missouri just to see it again.
Less than a day's drive from Pittsburgh now as our journey nears its end. It's been fun, but after the past couple weeks of craziness, I'll be happy to spend a few normal nights at my parents' house with our cat once again. On Thursday starherd shall leave us again, and Friday we've already got a 4-5 hour house-hunting block planned out. At least we shouldn't have jet lag to worry about for once. ^_~
Happy trails, folks. We'll return to your regularly-scheduled Kasra soon enough.
Got to meet up with catiechu on Monday which was lots of fun and involved surprisingly few one-way streets driven down the wrong way. Kansas City probably wouldn't have been nearly so difficult to navigate had half of it not been blocked off for construction. Still, we got to see (and take pictures of) some lovely urban decay, as well as have some most excellent bubble tea. It's just too bad the Indian restaurant next door wasn't open.
Today we went up the arch in St. Louis, and then checked out native american ceremonial mounds nearby before we hit the road. The sun today made up for the spectacular thunderstorm we drove through yesterday - even us cynical Pittsburghers pulled off of the road when the visibility hit less than five feet in front of our car and waited out the worst of it. The lightning was great, though. I've never seen lightning so beautiful in my life. It would be worth coming back to Missouri just to see it again.
Less than a day's drive from Pittsburgh now as our journey nears its end. It's been fun, but after the past couple weeks of craziness, I'll be happy to spend a few normal nights at my parents' house with our cat once again. On Thursday starherd shall leave us again, and Friday we've already got a 4-5 hour house-hunting block planned out. At least we shouldn't have jet lag to worry about for once. ^_~
Happy trails, folks. We'll return to your regularly-scheduled Kasra soon enough.