Our journey to Wisconsin will be approximately 10 hours. We drove 5 of it tonight. We picked up the rental car about 5:00 and hit the road. (Note picture - neither of us are any good at looking at the sun!)
Not too many adventures today though we did see a building in Indiana that looked like a giant candle and invented a new word 'oinkle'. According to Leah the proper way to use it is 'Dang, man! Look at that purty oinkle!. For your information 'oinkle' is the word to describe the colors of the sunset (orange, pink, and purple).
We also experienced a bit of what the Ingalls must have felt traveling at night over the open prairie with nothing but the stars to guide them when we realized we didn't know how to turn the car lights on. (Imagine, they were not automatic!)
Oops!
We're in the hotel room now and ready to call it a day. I am amazed to think that we covered 292 miles today. What took us 5 hours most likely would have taken the Ingalls, at 10 - 12 miles a day, nearly a month - and that would be traveling straight through with no stops. Technology can be amazing, but then again Pa and Ma and the girls would have traveled alone to the clop of the horses with an oinkle sky above them and prairie and mountains surrounding instead of battling 6 lane traffic at 70 miles an hour.
Anyhow, we head to Wisconsin tomorrow and our first destination. We'll tell you all about it tomorrow night.
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