Next week the boyfriend and I are taking a trip to Kansas City, MO for a concert. We’re stopping Thursday on Saint Louis for a night with my Aunt Lisa and her awesome husband. I’m stoked. I’ve been craving a road trip, and the boyfriend is stoked because we’re going to see his very favorite musician (on his birthday).

This is what our trip will look like (so far).  This week Zeus gets an oil change. And a good deep cleaning.

Taft, TX., originally uploaded by randomgoodness.

For the first time in my life I just got pulled over while I wasn’t doing
anything wrong. He said I didn’t turn my brights off quickly enough. He
really just wanted to know what this black charger full of white girls from
michigan was doing in his tiny ass town. Got away with a verbal warning.

On the way back to Sinton, originally uploaded by randomgoodness.

We spent. Few beautiful hours on the beaches at Port Aransas today. Brandy
and DJ’s first time in the ocean. It might have pooped us out a little bit.

I’m typically not very quiet about my love for road trips (or about anything else, really).  I adore the ability to get in my car and drive to an undisclosed (or unknown) destination just for the hell of it.

I have a flickr set devoted just to pictures I’ve taken while driving around.

Yesterday, I took a day trip to Richmond, KY.  We left promptly at 6am, and got to the Richmond area around noon exactly, around an hour ahead of schedule (what? *innocent look*), so we got off the freeway an exit early and drove over a much smaller bridge than the one that the freeway has.

Clay’s Ferry Bridge is a bridge that replaced an old style ferry that used to be used to take cars (and people and carriages and anything else you can imagine) across the river. These days, it looks like this:

Clay's Ferry Bridge

We crossed over from the left of the picture to the right, and proceeded up the hill. About half way up, there was a turn off that looked like it had been torn up a bit, and there were two crosses there. We pulled over to look. The one was far older than the other, but this one was so new it struck me and I took a picture.

Grave, by Clay's Ferry

This was an absolutely gorgeous spot. The entire state is so beautiful, in a slightly different way from Michigan, and I love to visit it.

After we’d had our fill (as if that were possible) we continued on the way, and arrived at Aunty’s house, loaded up the car with tons of fabric, had some lunch at Ramsey’s in Lexington with The Aunty Betty, and the Cousin Kelsey.  Ramsey’s signature dish is called a ‘Hot Brown’, and looks like a heart attack on a plate:

Lunch

The Cousin is pregnant and was due yesterday so we went walking for a bit in the Mall attempting to make baby Clarissa come on out.  We headed back to Lansing around 5, arriving back in town around 11.

The drives down and back were uneventful (except when I misread the highway sign on the way back, and got off on an exit in Dayton…) and it was slightly emotionally straining, but overall it was a good day.

I plan to make more trips like that. I miss the road.