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...
