So I resume my previous post.
After 2 crazy days hitting up places full of super fun things to do and see, our third day on the road set Babette, myself and the kitties off to Wichita Kansas, and the old adage about there being nothing to see in the middle of the country is true. There was not a whole lot to look at between Denver and Wichita.
But that doesn't mean that we didn't have a great time getting there. We stopped a long the way and found a Russel Stover factory store, and spent prolly too much money on for sure too many calories. Worth every penny, and every hour in the gym! LOL , so that was a hoot. It was on our way to Wichita though that we discovered the GPS we were using might not be as good as we had thought. It kept directing us to places that didn't exist. We wanted Ribs in KS, and we thought we'd never get them.
When we stopped for lunch we "put the kitties out" in the world. By that I mean, we had lunch outside and brought the cat carriers outside and let Baby kitty out on her leash to explore, so they got some fresh air. And we did end up getting some great pictures of the sun on our drive.
We were staying with some of my very best friends from LA's parents (also check out their band www.intercepttheband.com) in Wichita, and while there wasn't much to see along the way, we actually had a very excellent evening in KS in the form of good ole fashion mid-west hospitality. the family showed us a great evening and even provided us with the Ribs we had so craved. It was easy to see where my friends get their warmth and love from, their family showed us nothing less. I want to put a note of thanks again in this blog! Much love to the whole group!
The original plan from KS was to head to Indianapolis, but the friends we had planned to stay with were no longer going to be in town and while there are some fun things to see in Indianapolis after talking with our KS hosts, we decided the next stop on our journey should be the St. Louis Arch! I had been before, but it was a quick trip and I don't remember being as in awe of it the first time round as I was the second time.
We once again dropped the kitties off at the hotel and headed towards our destination. It was amazing, it's HUGE, it is so much bigger than I had remembered it. When we arrived we were in luck because not only could we get to the top of the Arch (last time I couldn't go) but we could go at was basically sunset and there was a baseball game going on right below us. It was just a great view of the city, the game and the sunset. Perfect really. It was sort of symbolic too, standing in the "Gateway to the West" watching the sunset in the west and looking eastward to what is a whole new chapter in my life. Strange how the timing worked out.
The next day we were back in the car again and headed to one of my best friends in the whole wide world's house in Grand Rapids Michigan. Not a whole lot to see in Michigan, but any excuse to see one of my bff's is a good one! And, while I'm not necessarily a super religious person by any means, I absolutely believe that I was supposed to be in Grand Rapids that Sunday morning. You see, bff and Babs are both very good Baptists, and as it turns out the church bff goes to is the same church Babs' sister recommended she go to while we were in town. The sermon was all about "dislocation and relocation" and how for awhile any change in location will feel like dislocation but over time it becomes relocation, and about the transition can change you in good ways if you let it, and how relocation means the chance to rebuild. Boy, if there was anything I needed to hear on cross country road trip to re-start my adult life, it was that. I didn't say anything then, but the sermon actually moved me to tears, it home and made me realize that yes, I was in fact moving in the right direction.
The right direction in the metaphorical sense... maybe not in the literal sense...but more on that another night LOL
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