2021 IL, MO, AR, AL, MS, TN, GA, KY Vacation

Since we didn't know what the code situation would look like, we decided that we would just start hitting some states that we've never been to. Mississippi and Alabama were two of them that stuck out as a sore thumb on our map because we had been to most of the states surrounding them so we chose a route and planned on hitting something in every state. What an interesting vacation and we had so much fun. 

I was looking at a blog and saw that

Arkansas has some fun gem mining places. We decided to go there since it's more rural and fewer people. 

Fist stop, grandma and grandpa's!! 

As we were driving to St louis, we saw an interesting sign on the side of the road. It was a cute little city of the world's largest...

I knew we had a pretty decent camp site viewing in St louis. We were able to see all of the Arch from our campground, and walk about a mile and a quarter right to it. If it weren't 97°, it would have been much more enjoyable although we loved our time there. 

We did a lot of walking around the city. Easily over 10 miles each day, and aside from the heat and thirst, the boys almost never complained. Even Atlas walk without complaining this entire trip pretty much. We walked all over got to see the baseball field, a lot of sculptures, and went to the coolest museum called City Museum that we spent many hours at. 

After a few nights in Kansas city, we drove to the middle of nowhere in arkansas. There were no highways so it took us about 9 hours. I think. It's been about 2 months since then. I kept googling something interesting to see, like I normally do on road trips, but it only came up as being billed the world's loneliest highway. We did get to see some planes crop dusting the fields so that was pretty cool. But the trip felt like it was 14 hours. 

Our AR stop was that a place called Ron Coleman's Crystal mining. They have a commercial mining business and then take all the leftovers and just dump it and you pay a small amount of money and can dig through the piles of dirt to find your own treasures.  This was the highlight for atlas. I knew it would be. We didn't tell the boys where we were going until we got close, actually, we bought a whole bunch of things for mining and gave them one thing at a time to see if they could guess. It wasn't until atlas got to pick ax that he realized what it was. Ares had known the secret for a few months he did a great job keeping it quiet.

Politics suck

2021. Day 6. We had, like, 5 good days. And appo6arently 2021 had to complete with 2020. 

A

n awful day in America. We knew it was coming. It was bubbling up. He said he wouldn't go peacefully. His followers haven't been nice. He spq-9outs lies. 

The coup failed though. Listen loudly. Your representatives don't even support your efforts. In fact, the coup did the opposite, rather than your 12 representatives fighting for your cause, 10 switched their positions, and only 2 kept their stance. 

The police let them in. They were, what sounds like, purposely half force today. The officers were taking selfies with the thugs.  It was a bad day.  If it were BLM doing this, they'd have been shot dead, but these white men were allowed to storm the Capital building... WITH ALL OF THE REPRESENTATIVES AND THE VP in there!! 

#$

but something good

many of my videos I can't post, but they're all down here in my Facebook feed. 

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