Today’s Travel Route:
Leg 1: Bolingbrook, IL – St. Louis, MO
Leg 2: St. Louis, MO – Springfield, MO:
5:42 AM
Eight hour timer just sounded. Started the process of waking up. Took my morning blood sugar reading. Not good: 61
6:03 AM
Waiting for they Redberry serial to be absorbed. Started the day with the blood sugar reading of 61, which is pretty low. Felt pretty dizzy as I went to the bathroom for my morning P. Sat there for a long time rather than get up too quickly and pass out. Today will be a busy day with about eight hours of driving. Once I feel well enough to be up and around, I will grab my roll-on bag, jump in the van, and hit the road.
4:30 PM
Arrived at Texas Roadhouse (TRH). After confirming our reservation for 5pm (for 9 people), I set myself to the task of finding a hotel room for the night. I paused for a moment, fixated on the building across the parking lot. Someething familiar about it. Looked at the windows and decided to walk around to the front of the building, as I had a hour to kill. A hotel!! What luck, Booked my room for the night. Thanks for being so fortunately located, Sleep Inn.
Did a double-take at the sign along the front walkway. Remember that all-import SLASH (or somebody may give your dog a cigar):
5:09 PM: Birthday girl, Lisa McGeough, has arrived with others in tow.
It took a long time to get a table, as two peoplw in our party were unavoidably stuck in traffic. We almost lost our reservation, as a matter of fact. FORTUNATELY, the manager stepped in to allow 7 of 9 of us to get seated. Our server, Farrah, took excellent care of us (and I let the tip reflect that, as all grateful diners ought to do).
Most of us had not seen each other is a year or so. Several of us had not crossed paths in 5 years, so this get-together was a big deal for all of us.
After dinner, we hung out, compared chase vehicle notes, and took some photos.
11:28 PM
Difficult to fall asleep until my hotel room neighbors finally pass out after 30 minutes of impassioned moans and groans. I guess you cannot shout out “get a room!” when they already have one. Ha, ha, ha!
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