BethRags, I'm glad you got to finally treat yourself to something and get a couple necessities to make your life a bit easier. I'll be glad to have the money to pay some of our hotel bills. We've basically been traveling only with the expectation of paying for it all with our house sale.

Last night I didn't get to sleep until after 3 am and then woke up terribly tired in a down and foul mood. Today was not that interesting at all, and the higher north we go the colder it feels again. When I'm used to it, it's fine, but after several 70 F days, it's a shock again. We're staying tonight in some off of the highway place to the west of Little Rock, Arkansas. Tomorrow we will stay in a much nicer place for three whole days. It'll have a kitchen, washer/dryer, more room and a nice view. I want to cook so badly! So badly!

After Hot Springs National Park, we'll head east again. Hubby told his friend that we'd be back by no later than January 14, but I wish we'd just head back asap after Hot Springs. I'm tiring of the road trip. It seems like "normalcy" is a long long way off. I can't even speculate when that feeling will return.

We were listening to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, while waiting for take out from a restaurant for almost one hour. I almost cried because that is my favorite classical music piece of all, and it made me feel homesick. The food ended up sucking, in the end. We didn't want to sit in the place. It looked like there were around 100 customers in there with almost no social distancing. Though I do see people in Arkansas wearing masks, not all of the time. The front desk guy at the hotel wasn't wearing one. The plexiglass at the front desk was all there was. That didn't prevent him from breathing on our room card. Dr. Fauci would not have approved, for sure! We spray everything with Lysol and wash our hands countless numbers of times per day. I want this pandemic over with already. Just wishing it away is NOT enough, and pretending it is almost over is borderline insanity.