As Dad and I were about to leave Hoyt, Kansas, I got in contact with Jess, who was leaving from Ohio for LA the day after we left Virginia. She ended up only being an hour and a half ahead of us, so we decided to meet up at a rest area. On the way, we saw the beautiful Kansas plains, many fields of sunflowers, and a lot of other random sights. Dad started worrying about his oil level when his console was telling him that it was too high, but we eventually agreed that it was just the higher elevation causing the oil to expand.
When we met Jess, she had been driving for about 24 hours straight! I was duly impressed, but she was willing to go four more hours to Grand Junction, Colorado with us. Fortunately, other than Denver traffic and some scary trucks in the mountains, it was a delightful and very beautiful drive. I had finished The DaVinci Code, so I put in No Country for Old Men, which I have been amazed to see how faithfully the Coen brothers preserved it in their film version. We timed it out perfectly, as we pulled into the hotel right at sunset. We went to a neat restaurant for a dinner that was a bit too big for any of us. We went back to the hotel room and enjoyed an awesome night of sleep in big beds with LOTS of comfy pillows. It was welcome rest, probably for Jess in particular.
Today, we've got a short trip over to St. George, Utah, where we plan to visit Zion National Park, which we missed out on when we were vacationing here in the summer of 1999. The trip from there to LA isn't too bad, either. I just hope I can finish No Country and The Hobbit in those two trips!
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