Day 5 - Aug 22

5:00 AM – wake up call

5:30 AM – say bye to dad before he leaves for work

6:26 AM – Leave Mom’s (tears minimal)

6:29 AM - B Highway – Pass the cemetery and Danno’s Rd

6:30 AM – Pass Pate’s Rd, Uncle Dales and Larry Dale’s houses

6:31 AM – Drive by the Mennonites church (Mom’s quilt ladies)

6:32 AM – go around the giant 90 degree curve

6:34: AM – Drive by pate’s creek house

6:39 AM – My best friend from grade school/junior high’s log home

6:44 AM - Pass the driveway of the house we will retire in

7:02 AM – 24.7 miles, Ellington… home of the closest grocery store, and a Coastal station. Get coffee, see Uncle Bob and say goodbye again

7:29 AM – 52 mi. John runs over baby armadillo

7:32 AM – passed garabage truck going 35 in a 60

9:21 AM – (115 mi)back on rd after breakfast stop – Midwest Kountry (Cabool) Pancakes are HUGE, and delicious (thanks for the tip dad)

9:20 AM – (125 mi._ Start HP Book 2

10:26 AM - (196.6 mi) Springfield, MO

10:30 AM – (202 mi)I-40 W

10:31 AM Chapter 2

10:34 AM – (207 mi) windshield cracked by rock on highway

11:03 AM – (240 mi)

11:30 AM – OK Border

11:44 AM – (330 mi)

11:56 AM – 312.1 mi – gas stop, worlds largest Mcdonald’s

12:34 PM - Chapter 7

1:13 PM – (396 mi.) first oil pump spotted

1:16 PM – (400 mi.)

3:16 PM – (490 mi) Back on Rd after visiting the OK cousins

3:40 PM – (514 mi.)Passed exit for 81 N to Hennessey

3:43 PM – Lockhart ‘fixes’ Harry’s arm

346 PM – John says, “Wow! It is flat”

4:03 PM – (540 mi.) gas stop

4:25 PM back on road after Sonic stop

MMMMMM corn dogs

4:32 PM drive past ‘THE MAIZE” corn maze

4:38 PM – Giant Wind farm on both sides of the road

5:05 PM – 600 miles

5:35 PM – 641 miles Texas State Line

6:05 PM – (684 mi) Beams of heavenly lign shine upon I-40 W (pictures would be available if the camera battery were charged

Drive past largest cross in Western Hemisphere ( we know cause the sign said so) we see the sign at 702 mi. and drive by the cross at 706 mi.

748 mi. Amarillo TX , papa john’s for dinner