Today I drove for twelve hours, from Austin to Joplin, Missouri. That's four states, since I snuck into a corner of Kansas. A sampling of the sights:
- armadillo roadkill
- a cow, wading up to its belly in a pond
- other cows obsessed with eating the grass on an embankment as close to the interstate and a state road as possible (Oklahoma has weird cows, I guess)
- an Arby's sign claiming that their new sandwich, the Baconator, "can smell fear"
- many rivers, including the Red, Arkansas, and Keosha, very muddy, moving fast, and flooding their banks
- the Cherokee casino
- the Shawnee community center and gift shop (it was closed...too bad)
Altogether, a good trip. I got off I-44 in Miami, Oklahoma, hoping to get a motel, but the National Guard was not letting anybody in. Just my luck to pick the town with the serious natural disaster. I was even listening to the radio for flooding news, but didn't hear anything. So I drove the back roads to Joplin.
The car is okay, although no one seems to know what's wrong with it. The garage in Austin looked into it and couldn't find anything wrong. My strategy is to never fill up the gas tank, since that seems to be the trigger.
Tomorrow, my mission includes driving to St Louis and finding sparklers along the way.
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Aw-- we should have talked! I'd have told you to stop at Boomland, the country's largest year-round indoor fireworks store. (Did we stop there on the way back from New Orleans?) I don't know if they've got sparklers, but they've got everything else... (gasoline, snack bar, ice cream shop... gifts, collectibles, home decor, gourmet foods)
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