According to our local weathermen, a blizzard was scheduled to hit Oklahoma City around 6am, Saturday morning. I did my best to beat it by hitting the road to Chicago right at 5am. By then the bridges had already iced over and I saw three wrecks within the first mile of my trip, but once I hit Edmond (30 minutes away) the ice turned to rain. I had steady rain from Edmond to St. Louis (a little over six hours), and then light drizzle from St. Louis to Chicago. 800 miles in 12:30, and that was with a 30 minute nap. (Not while driving; I pulled over.)<\/p>\n

Had a good Italian Beef sandwich for dinner. Had a great breakfast over at Uncle Joe’s house, and Aunt Linda’s homemade lasagna for lunch. I’ll probably grab a couple of Chicago hot dogs or something before I head out tonight.<\/p>\n

The train pulls out of Chicago at 9pm tonight and arrives around 6pm tomorrow in NYC. I haven’t been able to get iPhone tethering to work on my laptop today so I won’t be updating the blog, but I can check e-mail and Facebook from my phone so, it’s all good. I copied 20 movies, a hundred books, and a thousand games onto my laptop before I left, so I should have plenty to keep me busy.<\/p>\n

I took a few pictures at Uncle Joe’s Breakfast<\/a> this morning. By tomorrow night I should have all my train pictures online. I’ll update when I get to the hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to our local weathermen, a blizzard was scheduled to hit Oklahoma City around 6am, Saturday morning. I did my best to beat it by hitting the road to Chicago right at 5am. By then the bridges had already iced over and I saw three wrecks within the first mile of my trip, but once I hit Edmond (30 minutes away) the ice turned to rain. I had steady rain from Edmond to St. Louis (a little over six hours), and then light drizzle from St. Louis to Chicago. 800 miles in 12:30, and that was with a 30 minute… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}