ROAD TRIP! Day 12

Day 12: Springfield, MO to Chicago!

Deanna and I set a goal for today: don’t get up too early or leave too late. I set my alarm for 10:00am and said “If we wake up to this we have to bust butt!” Luckily we woke up at 9:00am and headed off to some quick coffee.

Today wasn’t about seeing anything at all. It was about getting home to Chicago, but not during Friday rush hour traffic.

Our stops were all about food and gas and bathrooms.

I bought a little book of logic puzzles for our flight to Hawaii back in November. I only had done one puzzle and never took it out again. As I reached into my backpack for it I remembered it being a Sudoku book, but it isn’t.

Our tactic this whole time has been to switch drivers every 100 miles. Sometimes one of us would go longer and sometimes one of us would get tired and need an early switch. Today we had 540 miles to cover and we discovered that doing logic puzzles while you weren’t driving made time fly!

We were thinking we would go through St. Louis and see the arch while we stayed on the freeway, but our route ended up taking us around the city. Guess we’ll have to go back.