Road Report One...

Well after a couple of days of easy (and not so easy) travel, we’re safely in our temporary "home" in the Residence  Inn near Westport Plaza, St. Louis.  The  immediate future is too complicated to bore you with, because it involves running down to Jackson to “help” (us at 70, they at 40) FOJTY move into their new home..

Anyway, Wednesday morning, we carefully loaded up the MOMSTER II with gifts and necessities, and with MFO’s deft touch, everything just fit.

 

So we finally set out on a pretty day, and even survived the I95 gauntlet to Richmond where we headed west

 

Although it is a bit risky in the winter we always enjoy our trip on I64 through Virginia and West Virginia.  There are so many pretty farms along the way

 

And the trees have settled back into their winter sleep in shades of gray

 

 

With occasional interesting contrasts on ridgelines

 

Due to the sluggard waking up habits of yours truly, we didn’t get as early a start as we should of, so when we got to our normal stopping place of Lexington Kentucky, it was kind of late to go out to dinner.  No matter, Bottom Feeder Catering had prepared his usual “road kit”, and we did very well. 

 

Always travel with real wine and cocktail glasses, nothing ruins the moment by trying to drink scotch and wine out of those miserable pressed plastic things the stopovers provide (at least the ones we frequent)

Anyway, we went to bed tired, but happy after nice day of travel, with the shorter leg ahead of us.  So up on the road again..  oops! Not quite the same as the blue sky yesterday.  The "major winter storm" levied another scene for our windshield...

 

And hey, let’s throw in a truck in the ditch from the high winds just south of Louisville, and add another half hour

 

Finally moving again through a rainy Louisville and I will not comment on this, it’s their freaking brand, and they deserve it. Somehow fits... KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut.. boy that's y.... (I can't bring myself to say it)

 

MFO battled the wind gusts (“…with some occasionally over 50 mph”) in and out of the rain

until we finally saw the familiar

 

So here we are.. chapter one in the books, chapters two and following to come.. Oh, tonight we are joining the FOJTE’s for dinner at a hot place… I’ll take notes.. and I will be (minimally)

 

DFD

 

Social Media PS... some of you (and God bless you) may have seen some of these photos on Facebook as I tried to do "mobile" posting.. mostly to miserable results