Eat your checkers!

Despite any misadventure today, we still are enjoying the trip.

We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto! - Day 3

So, this morning we left Colby, KS around 8:00am and we were making really great time until about 10:15 when we were nabbed by the Kansas State Trooper. While a polite man, he declined a comment for the blog and refused to be photographed for our memories sake. One of us got a ticket today, but it is up to you to vote on who you think it was. (Actual results will be revealed in tomorrow's post).

For lunch we stopped at the Cracker Barrel, where Kara and Kelcey cheated their way through a checkers game.

I am way more tired tonight that I was yesterday, thus this post is not as detailed or as funny.

We ended up in St. Louis, MS, after crossing into Illinois several times in an attempt to park by the arch. We watched the Cardinals game and the sunset from the top of the arch. (Ok, so we know it doesn't really count n the way of watching the game, but we did stand outside the stadium while the Cards won and fireworks were shot off). We hunted for an open Starbucks, but apparently, downtown St. Louis closes at 8pm, so we missed them all. For Eli's sake, we did photograph a St. Louis City mug through the window while the two workers inside just laughed at us.

We are now about 45 miles into Illinois, at an Econolodge, trying the rapidly finish this post so we can hit the sack. Good night, and good luck guessing who got nabbed.

Also, we have about 836 miles left to go until Syracuse, and we have over 2000 miles under our belts.

Road Trip

BLACHLY KIDS ROAD TRIP - Day 2

So we planned on clocking in all of our driving time, we got as far as Chris' first beginning time, 8:45 am on Tuesday, but never wrote down his ending time. I guess this trip is shaping up to be a classic Blachly trip!

We didn't plan out anything: not our stops for the night, not our fun detours, and we are open to suggestions, but sorry Timbra, 5 hours was a little to much out of the way this time.

Tonight we are staying in Colby, KS. Kara and Kelcey beat Kim and Chris in a race to the swimming pool! Yahoo! We have traveled a total of 1,342.5 miles, and 1,494 have miles left to go.



Some highlights from our trip so far include, taking tons of pictures in Zion National Park, and then that night not being able to upload any of the pictures, and today having to go to Geek Squad in Denver for some help. (Where we also learned my hard drive is doomed and on its deathbed! Maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, or maybe never!) Also, crossing 4 lanes of traffic to go see Buffalo Bill's grave, after singing the entire soundtrack to the best of our recollection, (acappella style) to Cabbage Patch Kids Adventure tape. We tossed money on the grave and got souvenirs for some the kids and a pressed penny for me.

Our side trip for yesterday was Zion Park; today was Buffalo Bill's grave, and who knows, tomorrow it might be the five legged steer, the World's largest prairie dog, or the badger petting zoo!

This morning, Green River, UT (where we stayed last night) received negative points for the local news, KJZZ Cafe, the headline stories included a Bear that broke into the Circuit City to steal an IPhone, which the played the security footage at least 10 times, over and over. Then they proceeded to zoom in on the newspaper's headlines for today's other top stories. But e ow know that one neighborhood is extremely upset that a crematorium went in in the field behind their homes.

While there are many more factoids we could include about the trip, I will wrap it up with an official stall count so far in Chris' manual transmission car:
Kelcey: 2
Kim: 1
Chris: 1*
Kara: 0

*Chris says, "I don't think mine should count. If we'd hit the guy, I wouldn't have stalled!"

In lieu of stalls, there is a puke count for Kara, which includes 3 from yesterday, and 0 for today! I didn't even wear my Sea bands today.

Our plan is to get up early to start another day of driving...St. Louis maybe?

BLACHLY KIDS ROAD TRIP - Day 1

So as you may have heard...the Chris is moving to New York for photography school. He was going to be traveling back there and his three sisters invited themselves to come along. Chris graciously allowed us to sign on for the trip. Yesterday was our first day of traveling we left Ridgecrest at about 8:45 am. Kim and Kelcey said goodbye to their kids as mom took them to the park so that no one would be sad as we left. We finished loading the car, posed for some pictures from our dad and then were off. We sang favorite songs, laughed and had a great time. We veered off course to see Zion National Park, and then back on the road. We made it to Green River, UT, just an hour and a half or so away from Grand Junction,CO, our intended destination for the night. We are trying to get out of our hotel and on the road this morning so this post is going to be short and sweet. We wanted to share the good time with you all.