Road trip to Austin!

Hello faithful followers,

As you know our beloved Chelsea is marrying Edwin Ochoa this coming week.  We are very excited!  Tim, Mary and I are driving to Austin for the wedding.  Here are a few pictures of our trip so far.  We are currently at the Hampton Inn South in Waco, Texas.  We left our house on Friday, Dec 30 after work and headed to Madison to spend the night with Adam, Andrea and Brady.

 Brady had to check out our van before we could leave Madison on Saturday morning, Dec 31.

 We had to scrape the frost off our windshield before we left Madison.  Once again, Brady took charge of things and commandeered the ice scraper.

 The happy road warriors about to leave Madison on December 31.  Notice we are bundled up against the damp and cold.

 Brady felt they should take their van and come along too.

 The fog was starting to lift as we left Madison.  It stayed hazy until we were well into Illinois.  We stopped for lunch in Oglesby, Illinois.

 The highlight that Mary was most looking forward to on our trip to Austin was a stop at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Musuem.  Here Tim and Mary are discussing the events of the Civil War with Generals McCellan and Grant.

Mary with Sojourner Truth.

 Greg and Tim posing for a picture with Abe Lincoln and his family.

 We crossed the Mississippi River at St Louis.  Here we see the Gateway Arch as we cross the river.

 We stayed Saturday night, New Year's Eve, in Rolla, Missouri.  Very uneventful night.  Mary and I were in bed by 9:00 PM and Tim shut out the lights at 10:00 PM.  We were gassed up and on the interstate at 8:02 AM.  You can see we had a beautiful morning and no traffic.

 Mary was the first driver of the day.

 Tim comfortably settled into the back seat.  Tim enjoyed the time reading.  you can see we had a few things with us in the van.  We shared the driving both days, usually going about 2 to 2 1/2 hours at a time.

We drove through the Ozarks in southern Missouri to start the day. We found a tasty place to have lunch in Barstow, Oklahoma at a retaurant similar to Taco Johns but better.  The restaurant was Taco Mayo.  It is a chain based in Oklahoma City.

 We made it to Texas.