Goodbye East coast

Saturday morning we let ourselves sleep in, even though the plan was to get an early start and make it to St. Louis for the night. We didn’t get on the road till 12 and ended up driving straight across country. Sean did most of the driving – Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. Whew! He did it on 2 rock stars! I wouldn’t even take a sip of it because the smell practically kicked in my gag reflexes. I did enjoy being a passenger though! I think everyone should take a drive like that. I imagined what it must be like for all those parents who drive their kids across country for college. West Virginia was beautiful with rolling, lush, green mountains. Ohio and Kansas were the toughest to get through, they were never ending! St Louis was nice at night. It was good to see the arch close up like that. We drove through around 11 and caught fireworks probably from the end of a baseball game. We stopped outside the city for gas and that was something else. We pulled into people screaming at each other, a police officer hanging out in the parking lot, and just a bunch of interesting people inside the convenience store.
After St Louis, the next big city was Kansas City. Smaller city, but nothing really to make me want to visit.
Right before I took over the wheel around 6:30 in the morning we drove into the sunrise, well away from it since were heading west. We were in Kansas and these massive windmill like things peppered the landscape. They looked like giant aliens in the morning dawn. An eerie feel came over me.
At last, our destination states! As we drove past the endless seeming plains, I anticipated the mountains. What would it be like to see them rising up for the landscape? About 100 miles outside of Denver we spotted them! It would be long before we were in Denver. We finally made it around noon. We did it!