Girl with netbook goes off grid for a few days. Oh it is not that we haven't had wifi with one of those SMAHHHRT phones but pretty much when you are camping for three days in a tent batteries run low and time at Panera or McDonald's to catch coffee and passworded signal are few and far between.
Yes - I am behind in posting again. We have been doing a few days of just driving. I got grumpy last night when we stopped at a motel. "No more of rushing through. I don't want to do more than 4 hours drive time a day from this moment forward. (Original plan) The purpose of the trip is not to get anywhere fast and miss the cool stuff in between the road signs."
(I am sitting in bed in a flea bag motel with instant coffee so excuse the lack of prophetic wondrous on this catch up post.)
So how did we end up getting off the vibe? I blame it all on ourselves and unwittingly temporarily deleting Illinois from the lower 48 states.
After we left Larry's lovely cabin in the hills of western West Virginia we headed out on I 64 heading to Kansas. Along the route we received a phone call from our GHOST HOST Drew who was heading east after attending Burning Man. We made a plan to meet at the intersection of I 64 and I 65 and spend an evening camping at a national campground in Indiana. Drew owns the house that we stayed in in Bradford, PA. He had been gone and his friends were house and cat sitting when we stayed there. This was to be our first meeting in person.
Drew's little RV was fully equipped with food and wine. Ines and I constructed my big tent and we all relaxed to chat and relax. Well.. we got very relaxed, so relaxed that the next day people were a bit fuzzy. I just had a sinus headache but when Drew said "Let's stay another day" I said "YES".
I am in love with my tent. I really love my tent. I went back inside, put on my Putumayo Yoga music, reclined on my comfy sleeping bag and drifted in and out of peace-zone so appreciating the open screened tent roof and fantastic weather. Later in the afternoon Ines and I mapped out our route westward. We had planned on crossing up to I 70. I had all sorts of cool places noted to check out along the way to Denver through Kansas. We thought we had the route and timing all figured out and then...
I got up Friday morning and informed Ines that we forgot about Illinois. We had routed to the border of Indiana then crossed into Missouri on the individual maps. Looking at the large map we needed to add a few more hours to the drive as we needed to add Illinois back into the United States. I thought some people would get upset if we deleted Illinois from the lower 48 states. "We best put it back."
So... we re-routed, drove much and got off the lookie-loo vibe. But that stops today. We are going back to meandering. We'll stop and chat with locals, look at "stuff" and get out of the car!
At this moment we are to the east of Wichita and taking back roads. Rt 400 has been rolling and not "amber waves of boring grain" but it has also been void of humans. We ignored a detour sign and ended up... well, I will save that story for another time. For now I need to make some coffee and figure out a campground somewhere along our path for tonight.
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