First, we woke up in our lovely, skeezy hotel, to find that the power was out - so showering and packing in the dark at 7AM was a pure pleasure - something I'd recommend everyone to try at least once in their life. On a good note, the local Starbucks (which was across the street from our hotel) suffered from the power outage as well, so everything we ordered was "on the house." Hell yeah for free expresso and cafe americano.
The driving was fun today. Ohio is beautiful - flat an corn filled, but gorgeous. The clouds were amazing, large and bulbous, just hanging out, sometimes letting the sun through, other times completely blocking it out. Indiana was also a fun drive - just like Ohio, super flat, but seemed shorted to get through. We drove right by Indianapolis, which is lovely. We were able to see Lucas Oil Stadium - which is a heck of a lot bigger than I had imagined. Soon after, we passed into Illinois and blew through it - although I swear we killed the entire butterfly population in the state. We must have hit one every minute and by the end of the trip, we had colorful splats everywhere on the car. Scrubbing off the smears was harder than expected. Damn butterflies.
Crossing into Missouri, this is where the excitement began. First, the GPS just wasn't able to find the restaurant we wanted to stop at (one featured on Diners, Drive-In's, and Dives), Sweetie Pie's. So, we drove almost 50 miles out of the way. Anyway, we eventually made it to the destination and the food was AMAZING. It was "southern cafeteria style." Southern food, but you walked through a line, picking what you wanted, just like you were in school again. The interesting part was that out of the 60 people in the restaurant, there were three white people, two of which were my mom and myself. The third was some gutsy guy sitting by himself. I didn't notice at first while in line, but while eating, every time I would look up, some group or person would be glaring at us. To say I felt uncomfortable would be an understatement. It's not that I was scared about the people around me, but we certainly stuck out and drew attention to ourselves. I'm wondering if when we left they were thinking "damn honkies." Great food overall though and a good experience, if not a little nerve racking.
Branson MO is where we are now and it's a pathetic version of Las Vegas in the Mid West. Imagine all the rejected show and restaurant ideas from Vegas, and throw them in the middle of no where. Yup, that's right, you now have Branson - half the rejected from America's Got Talent even have shows here. I'm not expecting on exploring much, but this hotel is 10000000x times better than the one in Ohio. Missouri is also a lame state to drive through. It's confused with what kind of state it wants to be. It's sometimes flat and barren, other times hilly, with other times looking completely unique - but most of the time it isn't fun at all.
Tomorrow we are driving to Amarillo TX - should be a good drive.
No new quotes today :(
States Traveled Through: OH, IN, IL, MO
Car Time: 11hrs Mileage: 726 Coffees: 2 Rest Stops: 3 Driver's Flipped Off: 1
States That Suck Ass: Missouri (So boring to drive through)
Total:
Car Time: 29hrs32mins Mileage: 1,888 Coffees: 2 Rest Stops: 6 Driver's Flipped Off: 4
Texas here we come! Where the food and people are biggerrrr
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