We Made It To Wichita

Howdy folks! We done made it to Wichita, KS. It's 7:25 in the A.M., and Annie and I are getting ready to hit the road for the next section of our journey: Sturgis, SD. We decided to stay in Sturgis instead of Rapid City, because we found a better hotel deal there. And there's an added bonus: we will be 45 minutes closer for tomorrow's drive.

We left Ft. Worth at about 5:45, and it only took us about 13.25 minutes to make our first stop to Sonic for some raspberry sweet tea - make it a Route 44, please; so then I can go potty every 5.2 minutes. I'm just giving you a hard time Annie.

After our "Sonic Good" break, we continued North. It wasn't long before some much needed rain started falling. Good for the land, not so good for our stuff in the bed of the truck. We eventually found a Wal-Mart off the freeway in Oklahoma. But, of course, the Okies have to make things very, very difficult and it took an Act of Congress to get to it. Long story short, we had to take a few residential roads to back to the freakin' store.

Twenty minutes later, we were in Wally World and bought ourselves some big plastic containers for our stuff. We get our stuff loaded in said plastic containers, and then the rain proceeded to stop. Thanks.

When we finally reached Wichita, by around 10:30 or so, we found an exit with no less than 5 hotels on it. Three of them were booked, one of them was gonna be about $100........So no. I was pretty much ready to call it quits and continue on, when Annie had us try the last one. $54 for the night. With free wireless. And a king size bed. And the room is pretty dang big.

So with that free wireless connections, I booked our hotel for tomorrow. Here's where Annie and I differ. She likes to have things mapped out, and the schedule pretty much planned out. I, on the other hand, like to keep things open. I would be just fine with not booking the hotel for tomorrow, but it think that we will save a few bucks by doing it Annie's way. Awww Sweet Annie.

Well, I'm off to spend the next 15-20 minutes repacking the truck. Which is my Dad's. Which has a sweet ZZ Top style paint job on it. Which makes people think that it's a Mexican truck.

Keep on keepin' on. Or Keep. Keep truckin'. I'll post again when I get a chance.