In The Zone...Time Zone That Is

For those of you who may have not answered the call of a road tripper and don’t often spend hours in a car to simply get further on a journey, let me tell you of the one saving grace of long distance driving:

Car dancing.

Yes, Cassie and I blasted some sweet tunes and then danced the hours away.  Now, some of you might be struggling to understand how dancing can take place while seated in a car.  Use your imagination, friends.  Comical, aerobic, and time consuming, car dancing is a great long distance driving activity.  We highly recommend it. 

In other news, may I recommend to everyone that they become very familiar with time zones?  As meticulously planned as we were, somehow this critical piece of knowledge escaped us.  We crossed two time zones today, which we don’t recommend.  At present it is 12:25am Central Time on June 16th.  For our California family and friends it is actually only 10:25pm Pacific Time on June 15^th.  Fortunately, our bodies are still on California time, which means we aren’t tired…yet.  As I type this portion of tonight’s blog Cassie is driving and singing.  We are not slated to drive into our hotel parking lot until 11:30pm PST.  That’s 1:30am CST in case you haven’t been keeping up.

Update on the car accident from earlier today:

As traffic slowly started to flow, Cassie and I were able to glance at what had kept us parked for over a half hour on the interstate.  Two motorcycles had been involved in some kind of accident that left both bikes completely mutilated.  It would be a miracle if either driver survived the horrific scene that we observed.  Please keep these anonymous drivers and their families in prayer.  On our way out of New Mexico there was a second accident that delayed us another 15 minutes, but fortunately it did not look as serious.  As we continue on our journey, please keep us in prayer for traveling mercies.

Something I am thankful for here at this late hour: God’s creation.  Although it is pitch black all around, the sky is lit up periodically with lightning from a passing lightning storm.  No rain, just a fantastic light show.  Not only is it keeping us awake and energized, it is breath taking.  Beautiful.

So ends a day that promised to be boring.  Cassie, the amazing, drove all day.  Soak that in for minute.  Just over 12 hours and she tackled it solo.  We established a great car dance routine of which there are pictures that shall not be posted to protect the innocent.  We learned that time zones can steal two hours away from you in just minutes.  Yet even greater than these triumphs, we made it through.  Take a peak at some photos from today’s leg of the journey.  Stay tuned tomorrow for St. Louis and Indianapolis!