May 31 - Clouds on the Horizon


Wake to semi-ominous


skies,


supplies,


and off again further east on I-70,


continuing through the Flint Hills,


the lamentable Turnpike,


over the


Kansas (City)


border


into


Missouri,


past Sedalia Junction,


over the


River a second time,


up Graham Cave Ridge,


through


St. Louis,


coursing above the Mississippi --


a


long


haul


through


long green corridors of


Illinois


and


almost-all-of


Indiana,


via Indianapolis,


ending up


at

Richmond (with Erlham College, and just before the Ohio line),


where the high is 85, as opposed to Topeka's 92 --66th day of summer way out west, topping out again at 73...