Day 8 (June 26th) – Benton, Illinois to Columbus, Ohio

We left Benton today and made our way to Columbus. The trip was another long day. It didn’t help that we got a late start. This is beginning to be a common theme of this trip, so you can say that we left on scheduled.

This trip was not very eventful. We didn’t see any largest fill in the blank. We did cross the Wabash River as we entered Indiana, and also crossed the Ohio River twice as we entered Kentucky and Ohio.

We made it through Louisville without a problem, but as we came into Cincinnati we ran into trouble. There was a truck that ran off the road. I guess he was going so fast that when people applied their brakes he could stop and bailed out into the center median. The reason for the stopped traffic was another semi wreck. It looks like another semi side swiped the one to the right. We are happy to know that those in Kentucky enjoy physic experiments as well. We also got caught in rush hour traffic in Cincinnati. This all delayed us about an hour to hour and half. We got into Columbus about 6:30 PM.

When we arrived at my Aunt Jerry’s home, Don and Carolyn Mullen were there along with John Mullen. We sat around and talked for a while after we setup the trailer. My mom and dad are staying at a Comfort Inn. Their trailer wouldn’t make it over a railroad track that you have to go over to get to her home. We ate dinner and talked until midnight.

Aunt Jerry, who is 88 and a great cook, had made some zucchini bread that was fantastic. It was so good that Samantha had two pieces. This surprised me because when she tries something new she usually spits out and says yuck. Her diet consists primarily of peanut butter, chicken, pizza and fruit. She will eat beef. She hates cheese but loves pizza. The only time that she eats cheese is when it’s on a pizza. If that confuses you, it has been confusing Lisa and I for many years. It’s so bad that she won’t eat anything that has cheese in it; Macaroni and Cheese, sandwiches, cheeseburgers, you name it. Pizza is the exception to the rule. As for zucchini, she won’t touch the stiff, which makes it even more confusing, since she ate like three or four pieces of the bread.

We drove a total of 409 miles to day. We have driven a total of 2868 miles for the entire trip. The total cost of gas purchased today was $74.

Tomorrow we are off to the Amish country.