Mid-West Magic!

Current Location: St. Louis, Missouri; Miles Traveled: 797 Miles

Good evening readers!!!!!

What a beautiful night it is in Missouri! Today has been an amazing day for traveling. This morning, we woke up in Hazard, and turned on the news to find that it was going to be a terrible storm complete with hail, rain, and none other than tornados. :) We went to the free breakfast at our sweet hotel, and had a wonderful meal. Bagels, cereal, oatmeal, danishes, muffins, coffee and orange juice. YUM YUM!

Should we stay in Hazard another night, or try and make it to the edge of Kentucky? What to do?! We decided to tough it out and just drive as far as we possibly could in the storm. By the way: the storm stretched from freakin' Canada to the bottom of Texas! About twenty minutes into our ride, the good Lord dropped the bottom out on us!!! It started pouring rain. Our glasses were fogged, our clothes were soaked, and worst of all - there were puddles in our shoes! But we drove and drove and drove for over an hour until the storm began to die away.

You'd think that since that storm was so wet, cold, and yuck that the weather would be pretty chilly for the rest of the day, but that was not the case! What a gorgeous, beautiful, spectacular, amazing day it was in Kentucky!! Mountains, and rocks; hills and ponds; grass and flowers, and my favorite: HORSES everywhere!!!! It was the most beautiful place and so much fun to ride thorough. Lexington, and Louisville were both amazing. We had a blast! I love that state, man, and it was the first time I had ever gone through it!

Indiana came and passed; another beautiful state! And then, Illinois came - and honey; Illinois is flat, flat, flat. There are no hills! Just flat plains, and farmland. It took forever, but finally, we made it here to Missouri. We saw the arch - and drove through St. Louis.

The bike gets about 175 miles to the tank, and as we reached about 170 with no gas station in sight, we began to panic. We asked a taxi driver who gave us directions (which included a U-turn) and sent us on our way. After our magical u-turn in ghetto Missouri, we were approached by, um, what's the best way to say this... we were approached by what I assume to be a man? in a small SUV. He kept staring at us, and it was making me very uncomfortable; not like, this guys gonna rob me uncomfortable, more like this person is going to spit on me uncomfortable. He rolled down the window and hollered "are yew guuuys undeer the influence?" Maybe you fools don't make U-Turns in Missouri, but in North Carolina, we are all about some U-Turnin'!

After an unsuccessful search of nice hotels, we decided to just suck it up, and stay at a place called the "Super 6" not to be confused with the Super 8 or the Super 59 or whatever the heck other Super Hotels they make! Lemme tell ya, honey, this place is NO America's Best Value in like we stayed in last night. I just found a booger, yes a booger, on my bath cloth. And Ricky found something brown on his.

Dear God,
Please let the sheets be stain free!
Love, Amy

Oh and guys, we are PAYING (heck yes, I said paying) to use the internet!!! Tomorrow, we are going to book a nice hotel without the word "super" in it.

We have seriously had the greatest day ever. I am so excited to see the rest of this beautiful country we live in. This has already turned out to be the best vacation ever, and we are only 2 days in!!! I can't WAIT to get to riding tomorrow. We are going inside the arch, and hope to make it at least close to Colorado by tomorrow night. Even if we can't make it that far (storms again, tomorrow), we are having such an amazing time!! We are having a blast, and as long as we're together, we are going to have the best, best, best time EVER!!!!!!!

Below is our photobucket account with our pictures from the trip!!! Enjoy and let's pray again for good weather!!!!!

http://photobucket.com/rickyandamy

Amy and Ricky