Cyber Maze Photo Gallery: Michigan 98

Another Michigan Roadtrip '98
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John & Jarrett & Ellie drive back to Michigan, Summer 1998.

Mitchell is really growing up. Walking and then he wants to drive.

Jarrett and Kathy. I still think of Kathy as my baby sister, but here she is grown up and a Mom. It won't be long before Jarrett moves away and starts college. But we'll concentrate on High School for now.

We left Conway at 1:45 PM. I was tired because I had spent the past day reinstalling all my Mom's software. Her computer was about finished and then it lost everything! We drove through Chicago and then I stupidly took a shortcut which added a half hour of driving through Covert and Benton Harbor. We gassed up on the freeway at 6:30 and got dinner. This is what the road looks like in Michigan.
Somewhere in Illinois around 10 PM we stopped at a rest stop and I slept for a couple hours. At 5:40 AM I hadn't been watching the gas and I needed to pull off at Griggsville. A 10 minute drive on empty and I found a Shell station. At 6:30 AM I crossed the Mississippi into Hanibal, Mo. Childhood home of Mark Twain. No historic side trips this time

Missouri was boring like I'd remembered. But we drove straight through and at 1:10 PM hit Whichita. Then we had the very hot and boring Kansas drive to make. By 4:30 we were in Mead and we gassed up. At 6:50 we hit Texahoma and got more gas and McDonald's and washed the Jeep. It sure got dirty from bugs on this trip!

I was falling asleep by Tucumcari, so I opted for the main highway home instead of any shortcut. I had to take a couple half hour naps on the side of the road. It was tough to nap too much with the Semi trucks passing me at 90 MPH on I-40, but by Midnight we made it back into our driveway and into our beds. I had put 3560 miles on my leased Jeep, which I'd only gotten a month earlier, but it sure outperformed the Beretta. And all-in-all it was worth the trip home to spend time with the family (and set up their computers! after all it was a business trip.) Jarrett was glad to get back to his own bed.

Summer 1998 at home in Conway, Michigan
(QTVR movie 257k)



Mitchell is really growing up. Walking and then he wants to drive.		Jarrett and Kathy. I still think of Kathy as my baby sister, but here she is grown up and a Mom. It won't be long before Jarrett moves away and starts college. But we'll concentrate on High School for now.
We left Conway at 1:45 PM. I was tired because I had spent the past day reinstalling all my Mom's software. Her computer was about finished and then it lost everything! We drove through Chicago and then I stupidly took a shortcut which added a half hour of driving through Covert and Benton Harbor. We gassed up on the freeway at 6:30 and got dinner. This is what the road looks like in Michigan. Somewhere in Illinois around 10 PM we stopped at a rest stop and I slept for a couple hours. At 5:40 AM I hadn't been watching the gas and I needed to pull off at Griggsville. A 10 minute drive on empty and I found a Shell station. At 6:30 AM I crossed the Mississippi into Hanibal, Mo. Childhood home of Mark Twain. No historic side trips this time Missouri was boring like I'd remembered. But we drove straight through and at 1:10 PM hit Whichita. Then we had the very hot and boring Kansas drive to make. By 4:30 we were in Mead and we gassed up. At 6:50 we hit Texahoma and got more gas and McDonald's and washed the Jeep. It sure got dirty from bugs on this trip! I was falling asleep by Tucumcari, so I opted for the main highway home instead of any shortcut. I had to take a couple half hour naps on the side of the road. It was tough to nap too much with the Semi trucks passing me at 90 MPH on I-40, but by Midnight we made it back into our driveway and into our beds. I had put 3560 miles on my leased Jeep, which I'd only gotten a month earlier, but it sure outperformed the Beretta. And all-in-all it was worth the trip home to spend time with the family (and set up their computers! after all it was a business trip.) Jarrett was glad to get back to his own bed.

Summer 1998 at home in Conway, Michigan (QTVR movie 257k)