We have officially begun our Anitoch and Door County yesterday morning. Took the kid (oops, dog) to the local dog hotel. Good Grief! Checked Boz in at 7 a.m. and were on the road by 7:24. The gps lady said it was 591 miles and would take us 10 hours and 48 minutes. I figured about 9 hours including stops. I didn't notice was that the Triple A Trip Tik said 577. Hmm, maybe should have taken note. I was having a little trouble finding the highway the gps was having us turn on as we neared our destination. Might have been because the gps lady took us up to Wisconsin and then back down into Illinois. What? After we turned onto the highway leading us into Antioch, I discovered why. We would have had quite a bit of time on Highway 173, a two-lane road with a 45 mph speed limit. I am so glad I couldn't figure out the map. By the way, if any of you travel into Illinois or Wisconsin, their maximum speed limit on interstate highways is only 65 mph. We did have rain until we were close to the Missouri border north of Kansas City. Not hard but very, steady.
After that pretty smooth sailing. The trip into Antioch took us 10 hours. Checked into the Best Western Plus in Antioch. Quick change of clothes and we were off to the Antioch Golf Club where we attended a memorial dinner for daughter-in-law's great Uncle Bill. It was very nice to be included as we had never met him. We are in Antioch because there is a memorial today at the annual Smith family picnic for daughter-in-law's father who passed away 4 hours before Uncle Bill. Rick died in late February and we were unable to attend those services. Hopefully, I will have some photos to share in the morning.
As you can see, we chose a healthy place to eat breakfast. This is in Bethany, Missouri. I need to have a breakfast burrito fix from time to time. Now that is out of the way for this trip.
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