Brian and I (here on the front porch at my grandparent's farm with Louie) left Antioch, Illinois on 08/19/2016, in fact I picked him up at work and we drove to St. Louis and stayed at Union Station in a beautiful hotel there! Our next stop was my parent’s farm in southern central Missouri. On Monday 08/22/2016 we headed out to Durango, Colorado by way of the Eastern Plains of Colorado. My grandparents both had farm ranches in the plains, Mom’s folks in Kit Carson and Dad’s