Well doing a blog is kinda like reading the Bible in that if you skip a day then it is easier to skip the next day. O and if you skip that day it is very easy to skip the next day - SOOO - I certainly apologize to those that have been following me for not sticking to my daily schedule.
Well we drove a few hours after Columbus and stopped just west of Indianapolis for the night. Trying to lessen the drive the next day to bring us on home.
Of course the "I want to get home" syndrome was being felt by all three of us but moreso by Betsey and Josh. I am not normally a gotta get home kinda guy - maybe it is the wanderlust left in me from my Navy travels. However, I was itchin to get out of the car. By the end of the trip it will have ended up being more than 3500 miles in 9 days. That is an average of 388 miles per day and one day we didn't drive the car.
We were going to go to Highway 61 Roadhouse in St Louis that serves up Louisiana fare (bbq spaghetti, andouille sausage, gumbo, etc). But it was a little early for lunch and I took the north bypass across the Mississippi (first time for that - you don't see the arch at all) and Highway 61 is southwest of St Louis - looks like that might be another trip.
Oh - Speaking of another trip - Betsey and I have decided that we will be doing some weekend jaunts to some places and continue this glutinous fried food excursions on a smaller scale. So if anybody would like to join us on a day or overnight trip to some wonderful (hopefully) eating establishments please let me know. OK - back to the trip and where did we go for lunch. Well - if you are a Mizzou Alumni then you are probably familiar with Shakespeare's Pizza. The first time that we experienced Shakespeare's Pizza we were on our way to Caveman Zipline with Daniel and Tanner. That was a fun weekend - I was a bit scared to do that but it was fun and I would do it again.
Back to the FOOD - Shakespeare's Pizza is great pizza and they have 3 locations around Columbia, MO. So the next time you are traveling through Missouri and need a pit stop - venture downtown to Shakespeare's Pizza. We ordered up a large meat lover's and their menu states that they will charge up the defibrillator just in case. Complete with Pepperoni, Canadian Bacon, Italian Sausage, Lean Ground Beef (glad it was lean), and Breakfast Bacon (again as my friend +Wally Roberts says if it is bacon it is good. Oh and there is a picture on the wall in the back room that looks like my brother Allen.
Back on the road - I had planned on stopping at Ozarkland on the way by but if you reference paragraph 3 above - you will know why we didn't. Ozarkland is where you can buy the moccasins for yourself or for your granddaughter. I think she liked them. =====================>>>>>>>>>
Made it home on Sunday afternoon - +Joshua Litscher was able to watch a little bit of the Bronco game on the way home thanks to the spotty Team Mobile Hot Spot that I got for +Betsey Litscher before the trip. The hot spot worked pretty good as long as we had phone reception - duh - I guess I expected it to be just a little bit better than my phone hot spot.
Thank you to +Justin Gilstrap for holding down the homestead whilst we were away.
After the trip will be on the next post. Keep your eyes out for the picture of me in sunglasses for your free Pampered Chef gift certificate. First one to spy me with my sunglasses on gets a GC.
Thanks for reading - Please come back.
Chow and Chow Down
Blessings to Ya'll
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Kevin
PS - Seriously we will be making some day/weekend trips to continue this; so if you are interested in tagging along let me know. OR if you would like to provide me some input on my blog please
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