Sues Contribution to the Blog

Hi, this is Sue doing the blog tonight. We are at a rest stop somewhere north of St Louis. Steve is sitting here with his eyes glazed over. We are stopped at a rest stop somewhere north of St. Louis. We had quite a day driving. We left Milwaukee this morning. A man who worked on the motor home yesterday suggested a “non freeway/ non toll way” to Branson and printed us mapquest directions. What I shouldn’t have done was turn on Hillary (our infamous GPS) and also be looking at the map. Well the three didn’t coincide. We traveled for about 2 ½ hour over pretty, but very country roads, detours, etc. Finally we reached the freeway we would have gone on. We turned south, but we happened to look at the northbound sign and it said “Milwaukee—37 miles”!!!! Oh well, the drive was pretty. We headed south and ended up in Springfield, Illinois (that’s the capitol isn’t it?) about 5 PM and in an impressive thunder storm! However we are settled for the night and have about 4 hours to go until we reach Branson tomorrow. We have tickets to see a new musical, “Noah, the Musical” and to see the Oak Ridge Boys. Well I better go see if Steve is still alive. I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear from him tomorrow.