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Day 6 (Wednesday, June 28th) – Gateway Arch, KC BBQ, and Sioux Falls
Today, we continue our drive out west. But first, we stopped to visit the gateway to the west – the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. We did not go up into the arch as I heard that it’s not that great plus the smoke from the Canadian wildfires made the air very hazy. After visiting…
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Day 5 (Tuesday, June 27th) – The West Awaits
Today is the day we begin to make our journey out west. After spending the morning with our friends and packing up the car, we hit the road to St. Louis around 1pm After about 7.5 hours, we arrived at our hotel just outside of St. Louis (which interestingly enough, was in Illinois). We experienced…
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Day 4 (Monday, June 26th) – Hangin’ on the Farm
Today was a day to just hang out with our friends at their farm. We played games and did some axe throwing. We did all our laundry in preparation for our trip starting the next day.
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Day 3 (Sunday, June 25th) – Frozen Head Park
After feeling sick for a couple of days, Lizette decided to go to a walk-in clinic to get checked out. Her suspicions were confirmed – she has strep throat. She was prescribed antibiotics to take over the next 10 days but should feel better in a couple of days. The plan was to go to…
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Day 2 (Saturday, June 24th) – Welcome to Clinton, Tennessee
After getting about 7 hours of sleep, we got up and had the free breakfast that Hampton Inn provides. Its not the best breakfast but it does the trick. We got on the road around 10:30 and set our sites on Clinton, Tennessee to visit our friends for a few days. Clinton is a small…
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The Start
Well, things never seem to work out as planned. After returning home on Wednesday night, June 21st, from Kaitlyn’s volleyball national championships in Orlando, we found our AC not working properly and the pool looking a little green. So in addition to getting the van ready, we also needed to get an repair guy out…
