Yesterday Kris and I got up and took a tour of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Saint Louis, and I got on the road around 3 in the afternoon. I didn't get in to Oklahoma until nearly 11, and there was a stretch of time on the road when I underestimated how uninhabited this state is.
There are about 20 miles between every exit on I-44 out here, and I misjudged when to take a bathroom break and barely made it to a Walmart that thankfully also sold diesel. The hotel room is a little better than the one in Knoxville, it's on the first floor and the breakfast was a lot nicer, but last night there were people screeching their tires and racing until around 2 in the morning. I was less than pleased.
The current plan is to get showered and organized and get going before 11 so I can get to Chris's aunt and uncle's place before 7. This trip is changing my relationship with my car, and it's really changing the way I think about short-distance driving. I think I'm going to be a lot more relaxed about getting stuck in traffic from now on, because I'll just think, "At least I don't have another six hours of driving to do after this clears up."
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