There is nothing glamorous about over-the-road travelling. We are at about the half way point now: Elk City, OK. We are dividing up the miles in to four days of driving instead of three because the near 700 mile days in the car were killer. We did just over 400 today and stopped before dinner. It makes a difference! Tomorrow we shoot for Gallup, NM and then Friday for home.

We found a better stopping place today and took some time to let the boys run around. It was 100 degrees though!! I was hoping that we wouldn’t get to that just yet!

Brendan says, “See ya! I am going to McDonalds!”

He brought back some lunch

The boys ate a truck load of fries!

Trevor is trying to feed fries to Brendan

Time to go back to the truck again

We settled in at another KOA camp site and Trevor immediately scoped out the best dirt

This is the second KOA that has a “vintage” playground. Concrete tunnels..

Old crooked metal merry-go-rounds

Brendan is signing that his Daddy is going round and round

Brendan tried a big boy swing

You don’t find new playgrounds with tall structures made out of rough broken lumber, protruding nails, and rusty poles. How did we ever make it?

Brendan figured out how to turn on the water

Mud time!

Two dirty boys need a bath!

I was proud of Brendan for getting muddy

Some unique refreshment

Same old thing every day.. So far Brendan is healthy and we want to keep it that way!

We have tried to make the most of our travel time and find the fun when possible. We are also thinking about Great-Grandma and Gramma and the difficult choices ahead and wish that we could wrap them in hugs and do something to help.

The first day on the road, we didn’t leave the RV park until 8:00am but we made good time. The boys did a great job in the car again, and we got back to our friends’ home in Missouri before 6:00PM.

Can you tell Brendan was licking honey mustard pretzels?

When he makes his face all yellow, I tell him he looks like an oompa-loompa

It feels like we never left Missouri, the week went by so fast. The guinea fowl were right there begging Trevor as soon as we arrived.

Brendan thought we should keep driving, it was his turn

The puppies were happy to see the boys again

So were the geese, especially since the boys were throwing bread.

Getting wiggles out before bedtime

I forgot to post these from my phone from the first day we were in town. Gramma and her boys were having their first frozen cokes together.

We are going to stretch out driving across four days this time depending on where we can find to stop. This evening’s meltdown was pretty crazy. Time for bed!

Our last day in Illinois, we can’t believe our visit is over. Because everyone was sick, we just had Gramma and Grampa Dusty to visit. We went to say goodbye to Great-Grandma too.

Brendan also got a turn to visit next door and play the marble game.

They boys helped plant the big rock they brought for Gramma

Trevor gives it a kiss for luck

Trevor drove around in Caleb’s monster truck. Poor Caleb is sick now too, we hope he feels better really soon.

Trevor says he is giving the truck a “tune-up”. He told me that he put gas, oil, and wiper fluid in it and he aired up the tires.

The boys are running around like wild crazies right now, hopefully they fall asleep in the truck on the way back to the camper. We have a LOT of packing and prep to do for a morning departure.