Today we said goodbye to Kentucky and started what could be a long road trip. After breakfast, we checked out of the B&B (mediocre at best and not worth the money BTW) and headed out into another grey day. It’s a pretty boring drive straight out interstate 64 and we weren’t quite sure how far we were going. The delivery window for the furniture starts on the 21st so if the moving company called and said we needed to be there first thing tomorrow then we had a 9 hour drive to Kansas City ahead of us. We had planned to stop in St. Louis on the way, the only question was for how long – just for dinner or for the night?

So we rolled along the miles out of Kentucky into Indiana and the skies started to clear. Funny thing about Indiana is that you move from Eastern to Central time about halfway across the bottom part of the state. There is no sign to show it but the time on my iPhone was suddenly different than the time on my watch. Oh and Frank’s car seemed to know. All of sudden the hands on the dashboard clock started speeding forward.  Because the hands don’t move backwards, they needed to skip ahead 11 hours to lose the hour. It was like something out of a science fiction movie.

With no flying saucer or time hole in sight, and no phone call from the moving company, we made plans to stop over in St. Louis for the night. Some speedy texts to my friend Alice and a couple of clicks on my cell phone and we had a room at the Moonrise Hotel, the only hotel on “The Loop”. It has a space theme which could be a bit over the top but how can you not love having drinks below a giant rotating moon on the roof top bar!

We wandered all over the area which is entertaining in a “hookah bar on every corner” kind of way. Then it was time for some culture – and possibly some stained glass – so we headed for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. Not much in the way of stained glass but oh, the mosaics! 83,000 square feet of them. Absolutely breathtaking! (For those keeping score at home, I did light a candle for my mom.)

Then it was out for Thai food with friends Alice and Todd followed by GF cannoli and accompanied by lots of friendly chatter.  It’s so nice to be able to meet up with friends as we traverse the eastern US. Tomorrow, it’s KC or bust!