The countdown begins.

Six weeks from this Saturday Brent and I will be on the open road making tracks to Springfield, Illinois!  Most details of the trip remain fuzzy.  Outside of the main attractions of the presidential museums and World War I Museum, nothing else is on the itinerary.

I'm getting more and more excited for our visit to Kansas City.  I picked up a new library book to help get my psyched for the World War I Museum.  The reviews for The Remains of Company D are all positive, but what intrigues me most though is how the author was drawn to write the book.  Much like Daniel Allen's story haunts me, James Carl Nelson's long lost relative's harrowing brush with death haunted him.

In addition to the World War I Museum, we'll be hitting the Truman gems in Independence while we stay in Kansas City.  One of Brent's requests was for us to stay in a Westin at least one night on our road trip.  Kansas City has the Westin Crown Plaza.  So we know where we'll be staying for two nights of the road trip, hopefully.  No reservations - we're just going to show up and ask if they have a room at the inn.  If it's anything like sleeping at the Westin in Houston, those will be the best two nights of sleep we get all year.  I love their down comforters!

I think we may have time to do one day in St. Louis.  We could eat some famous St. Louis barbecue, maybe take a helicopter tour of the city and the Gateway Arch, and go on a riverboat ride.  We shall see.  Six more weeks!