Day 1 & 2

Ralph Post: So we thought that we would be off Friday by 6:00 AM but by the time we got everything loaded it was 10:00 Am. But that's okay, we are on vacation so why rush. The first stop was at Starbucks and the post office.

I was surprised that we were able to get all of our stuff (enough for 6 months) into the little car but we did.
The trick was to get it out at night and be able to repack in the morning. Surprisingly I was able to do just that.

Anyway, we did get on the road and even with a late start we were able to drive 700 km the first day. The border crossing at Port Huron was reasonably fast, only 22 minutes. The first 20 minutes was waiting in line and only a 2 minute conversation with the border guard and we were into the United States.

Driving with the cat was easier than expected. The drugs that I got from the Vet really chilled Missy (the cat) out for the drive. That was a nice surprise.

Day 2 was a slow start again. We started out at 10:00 AM-ish and our first stop was for breakfast which took almost an hour. It was a long drive over 10 hours and we covered 900 km arriving at Memphis. Tomorrow will be a long day if we expect to arrive in Austin.

I apparently had made some assumptions about the geography of the U.S. For one, I expected Indiana to be flat but not as flat as it is with farms that run off into the horizon. Missouri was even falter. I am sure we passed rice fields and cotton fields. Harvesting must be mechanized, no way they could harvest by hand without having thousands of pickers.