Driving home from Wisconsin

We slipped out of the house before everyone woke up.  The sun was just rising.









We stopped at a new Starbucks in Sun Prairie.  We didn't make coffee at Jill's as we didn't want to wake them up.  The smell of coffee is so good and would surely wake them!  

I love a good cup of coffee in the morning!

We had learned that the night before there was a gas explosion in Sun Prairie that leveled a downtown bar and caused a massive fire to a pizza restaurant.  It killed a firefighter and critically injured another.  I had to think about that as we stopped in that city.  Here's a photo I found.

We hit Madison at rush hour.  Bumper to bumper.  It took so long to go through it!  We should have found a 2-lane road around the city.  It would have been faster!

 I love the wildflowers in the ditches!  Wouldn't that be wonderful if every state had them in between the roads.   You wouldn't need to mow them.  I think they do, but they should just leave it as it is so very pretty!

 We didn't go on off roads going home as Al had to be at work early the next morning and I needed to set up for Dress A Girl at our house.  So we went the fastest way we could!  It truly is a beautiful drive!

 This barn becomes more and more dilapidated each time.

 One day it will be in a pile I suppose.

 Beautiful farms!

 Crossing the Mississippi

 Crop duster

 I took a turn driving from Des Moines to Kansas City so Al could take a nap.  We hit rain and had to drive pretty slow.  Some people don't understand the danger of driving fast in a downpour.

"Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."  CS Lewis