We had a great sleep in the Walmart carpark, but black clouds loomed this morning. We checked the weather to make sure there were no tornados forecast (we are in Kansas after all). But no warnings so we heading on our way. 

We are staying off the interstates now, but the roads are still really busy. It was pouring with rain when we left and I was a bit worried about our wipers failing like they always do when it rains, but they hung in there.

After a while the rain stopped and we just drove and drove, along long straight boring roads. Mike drove, I read my book. And they we crossed into Missouri. The roads became slightly less boring with green grass, trees and the occasional corner in the road. But we’re on a mission now, to make it to Kentucky to see Mike’s sister. Hopefully we can have a rest when we get there.

We stopped at another Walmart in Mountain Grove for the night. I asked if it was ok, she said it was fine, just to park over by the service station. I’d read this wasn’t a very nice town and asked if they ever had problems. She said, “you’ll be fine… here.” So I asked, “as opposed to where?” She replied, “ten minutes in any direction”. So, this made me a bit nervous, but Mike had already driven 500 kms today and we needed to stop.

There were a few trucks parked up here, so we figured it was safe. Still didn’t stop me looking out the windows at regular intervals. There seemed to be a lot of noise around. Mike said he heard a rattly old car circle us a few times, and wondered what was up, but thankfully didn’t wake me to tell me, otherwise I would have freaked out. But we had an ok but restless night.