It’s day two and after waking up at 6 am, because Bailey refuses to believe in time zone change, I have been battling it out with the two dogs, so at least half my butt will be in a seat. After finding our most comfortable arrangement (for the dogs, not for me), we settled into our second day and prepared to go as far as we could.

It’s been a cloudy day and truth be told, pretty uneventful. We crossed off Illinois and Missouri on our state list and I was sad that we couldn’t stop and enjoy St. Louis, since Alex had never been, but traveling on little sleep, in a huge caravan of moving truck and trailer and two fur children, really didn’t allow for stops that didn’t involve gas, food, or a patch of grass.

When we finally made it into Kansas, I had a hard time not wanting to run off to the Wizard of Oz museum and winery (thinking of you Sharon and Jennifer). If you ever head through Kansas follow the yellow brick road, or you know the signs on I-70, and make it over to the one red light town for some selfies with Dorothy.

However, while in Kansas we did discover it’s not as flat as everyone believes. Seriously there are corn fields for as far as the eye can see, the speed limit is 75, which would be fantastic, but those sneaky hills that you don’t notice keep our caravan trying to max out the RMPs to get up the slopes (that is 50 MPH on the image, and we were MAXED out!). I wonder if this is how we make it to our final altitude? 

There isn’t much to love about driving through Kansas, sorry Kansas, but the one thing I love to see is the windmills. That may not be that special to a lot of people, but we don’t have a lot of windmills in GA, and I just love seeing the sea of twirling fans whenever I drive through Kansas. In the midst of all those corn fields, rising up like they were planted by giants, are acres upon acres of windmills. 

We finally made it through to Hayes, Kansas and settled down for the night in a very interesting motel. To say that this had been an adventure so far, didn’t quite capture the sentiment of what we had been through. One thing I kept thinking was; wow, I will always remember this, I have some how convinced the man I love to leave everything we know, pack up everything we have, and drive half way through the country so we could start chasing the snow.