"hey i've never seen the sun come up in the west"

So we finally headed out the door at like 7:30pm, although we had planned to leave super early...I guess it was a good thing...we missed all the chicago traffic!!
We drove for like 8 hours and got a little tired, so we stopped in Lincoln, Il...and right as we were about to get a hotel for the night, we realized that we did not lock the bikes up...Nothing terrible happened, but we didn't want to sleep somewhere and not have them locked up, so we tried to find a place to buy a bike chain...at that point i was so tired i was even willing to go to wal-mart ( not my first choise of places to shop) but the only thing that was open was a 24 hour kroger...we were pretended we were Macgyver. We made a make shift bike lock out of a dog leash and a padlock!!! i guess it worked, because when we woke up, our bikes were still there...
I have no problem with cheap-ass hotels when i am traveling, but i must say this one was the pits!!!
We got a smoking room, because i felt bad...it was so cold and windy that i asked tony not to smoke in the car ( it was making my windows rattle, and my ass freeze off) anyway this room STUNK like someone had locked themself in there for a year and did nothing but smoke cowboy killers all night and day!!!
so it was pointless to shower there, the stench would have only stcuk to my hair...so we woke up and left! Got a little breakfast and drove almost all day!!!
We drove through St.Loius which looked pretty cool-although because of the weather it was really gloomy looking...but we got a few good pictures...
So we drove straight through Missouri and part of Oklahoma...We stopped just shy og OK city to have dinner with Kristine and Scott!!! It was really nice to see them!! and might i say that her house is soo cute.. i expected nothing but from her :)
anyway, after dinner, we both got really tired and with her great kindness, Kris offered to let us shower and take a nap at her house...which we graciously accepted.
SO we took a nap until like 4am, then headed right out for a long drive...
We spent all day Sunday driving...from 4am until midnight...and might i add...it was a long freakin' drive...
Oklahoma, texas and a lot of New mexico are REALLY boring to drive through!!!!
We did see some cool wildlife...a pack of wolves...a lot of dead coyotes and deer..and one dead armidillo.but other than that...giant sleeping pill!!!
We did see a cross that you could see from 7 miles away on the highway...and took note that every gas station in texas also sells a lot of fried stuff!! everytime we stopped for gas or a potty break in texas, we would leave smelling like fried stuff!!!
Anyway we finally got into our place at like midnight and fell right asleep!!!