We hit the road a little after 9:00 this morning. It always breaks Jim’s heart a bit to say goodbye to his family. They were so gracious to us and treated us well.
We stopped at The Abbey of Gethsemani mid-afternoon. It was a peaceful, restful stop. We each bought a book from their book store and then went into their simple church. We sat and rested for a bit in the church.
Drove through some heavy rain for short periods of time today. The road to the Abbey was narrow and twisty. Traffic wasn’t too heavy on the highways most of the time. Ran into a few slow down areas but luckily they were short and didn’t slow us down for too long.
We stopped in Mt. Vernon, IL for the night. We will have a little over 6 hours drive to get home tomorrow. Had dinner in a restaurant within walking distance of our hotel. We are now tucked in for the evening. Trusting both of us will sleep good tonight. We are both tired. Neither one of us slept really good last night.
We finally saw some open land on the last part of our drive today. There are still too many trees but occasionally I get a glimpse of the horizon and some open space. Did my heart good to see open land.
We will both be glad when we get home tomorrow mid-afternoon. It has been a wonderful trip but there is no place like home.
Grateful for a safe day of travel, grateful we stopped at the Abbey, and grateful the traffic was not so heavy most of the day.