Monday, August 10, 2009

Driving a Country Mile - Or Three Hundred!

I'm Back! Home again, that is. Drove over 300 miles today, mostly on back roads. Today I needed to make a couple out-of-the-way stops so I used Mapquest at mapquest.com to plan my route. Mapquest is useful but tends to use routes that include major highways, even it if means adding extra miles to do so.

So I searched for "shortest" trip, rather than "quickest" trip and was greatly surprised to see the quickest trip was 48 miles longer than the shortest trip. So I found myself meandering south through the central part of Iowa on small country roads. There were a couple stretches of gravel road but I jogged east or west to avoid those. All in all, it was an easy trip with very little traffic and I saw new parts of Iowa that I had not seen before. Mostly small towns, too small to even brag a decent quick-shop gas station. I didn't mind foregoing hectic interstate driving for this more sedate route.

Remember the peach pie that I baked for my hubby to eat while I was gone? He saved a slice for me. Whatta Guy! He must have missed me something terrible to do something that sweet, dontcha think?
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5 comments:

Shopping Kharma said...

Sounds like an adventure. I miss road trips and hope to take one soon! My best tool ever is my beloved GPS system. My honey got me one a few years ago for my 37th birthday? Anyway, my chemobrain can get me lost anywhere and now there's no more frantic lost calls to my honey. Now I never get lost that much anymore. I can't go to many places with out it. I used to print up directions and now I rely on this little technology and it's the best. Anyway thank you so much for the encouragement you have given me these last couple of days. I wish you all the best and many, many more road trips to come!

Dorothy said...

Your hubby sounds like a keeper to me!

Glad you had such a pleasant trip home.

Denise said...

Sounds like a lot of fun! And peach pie! Yum!

Shelly said...

Sometimes it's the little things that show us how much they love us.

Daria said...

I read or hear this somewhere ... one man telling another ... if you want to show a woman you love her ... you give her an unexpected gift at the most unexpected time.