Day Two: On the Road

We got up really early today to finish the final leg of the first part of our trip. We got into Kansas City about lunch time and then we started touring the same places I haven’t seen since I was a kid. If you ever go you have to eat at Winsteads. This place has been around for 65 years and they have the best Limeade and burgers ever. O and their MileHigh soda is so good.

I have had this weird anxious feeling last night so I decided to blow off some steam. The gym was crowded at the hotel with what appeared to be a band trip of high-schoolers so I decided to just go for a walk. Not knowing the area well I dropped that option too. Finally I opted instead it walk up and down the hallway of the hotel. At one point I jogged a little almost like suicides. This worked for a little while until this older guy came out of his room and was totally creeped out by me running. He said he heard some noise and wanted to take a peak. All he saw through the peephole was a flash of blue. I said I was sorry and he went back inside. … ahhhh a runners life on the road is not that easy. Especially when the people your with or places you go are not into that lifestyle. .

Road Trip to OKC Day 1

I am on the way to the OKC Marathon and thought … what better way to remember the experience or pass the long, long journey west then blog about it.

We left this morning at midnight but we had to do a little backtracking because I stupidly forgot the one thing I needed on this excursion. My sneakers… yea kinda hard to run without those.

Well after we got them we were on our way. Then we hit the worst fog I have ever seen. I’d call it death fog (seen on right and below). It took all of those who were driving to get us through it. We were going through West Virginia at 4 am and it was something straight out of M. Night Shyamalan's mind. Cars would literally disappear right in front of our eyes and you couldn’t see two feet in front of you. We were going 20 mph at some points.

Then we continued to drive and eventually hit Warrenton, MO. We stopped at the St. Louis Arch (at the bottom) and just a few places here and there. The Holiday Inn we are staying at it super nice and the Waffle House next door was really good too. We drove a total of 13 hours today and are a little ways away from our next destination.

I tried to drink as much water as I could and stretch whenever I got the chance. That seemed to help.

Road Trip Blogs

I thought I would post my blogs that i wrote while on the road trip out to OKC. Hope you enjoy.