by Pa Rock
Traveling Fool
Rosie and I are at Olive and Sully's house in the Kansas suburbs of Kansas City. We drove up early this morning and experienced very light traffic throughout most of the nearly five-hour trip. The sky was blue, the temperature moderate, and the company pleasant - all of which made for a really good driving experience!
I don't remember seeing even one police car the entire two-hundred-and-seventy-some miles, no accidents, and only one dead deer and one dead raccoon along the way. Not a bad trip. One thing I did notice was several cars with paper license plates, indicating that they had been recently purchased - a sign of a healthy economy. I also drove past one extremely long freight train that was loaded with merchandise containers. Thank you President Biden and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg for moving swiftly and decisively to avert a national rail strike!
There wasn't much in the way of campaign paraphernalia littering the roadway - several yard signs for Republican congressional candidates in Missouri, and three signs for Sharice Davids, the incumbent Democratic congresswoman in Kansas 3rd district, where Olive and Sully live, and three for her Republican opponent. Go, Sharice!
About the time I crossed the state line into Kansas I came up behind what looked to be a brand new, baby blue, Mini Cooper that had a pair of interesting bumper stickers. The one on the left read "Power to the People, Right On!" and the one on the right encouraged those following to "Love Your Mother." I thought both were both very sage pieces of advice!
Olive and Sully have a houseguest who will be with them for a year, a beautiful young lady from Beijing, China, who is attending a local high school. I met Ella today, and she is a lovely person - and Rosie immediately fell in love with her - and dogs always know good people when they meet them!
More later from the Free State of Kansas, the state that protects a woman's right to make her own health care decisions!
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