Hittin' The Road

Today after our church service, at roughly 11am, we will be pointing the car eastward and heading for the homeland of Wisconsin and Minnesota. It will take us a couple of days to get there, and tonight's destination is Buffalo, Wyoming. The reason that undergirds our journey is the retrieval of our Sweet Little Babboo (Beth) from her first year of college. Amazing! She is already through a year of higher education. Amazing! I will only have to pay for 3 or 4 more years.

The weather this morning is bright and sunny, and it appears as if the conditions along our route today will be rather uneventful. The scenery should be beautiful as recent snowstorms in the mountains should have left a wonderful blanket of white over the middle to higher terrain. We should be setting down in La Crosse, Wisconsin sometime late tomorrow evening. Since my parents usually go to be be 3:30 in the afternoon these days, we probably won't see them until Tuesday morning. On Tuesday evening there will be a bar stool with my name on it at Schmitty's, one of the local bar and restaurant establishments that the heartland of our nation is so famous for. On Wednesday we will drive up to St. Paul to load up all of the junk that a college freshman can accumulate over the course of the school year, and haul it all back to my folks house. Then Thursday we make the trip back to the Twin Cities to load up Beth and her friend Kristen for the trip back toward the west. I hope that the family truckster can hold us and all our belongings, and make it safely again through the mountains.

Today is Mother's Day. I will be seeing my mom tomorrow evening...or more likely on Tuesday morning. I want to wish all moms who may be reading this senseless drivel a wonderful day!