Eight vs. Ten

The boys and I made our annual trip to Pender on Monday after work. The boys shared driving duties and did a great job. The drive is much easier when you aren’t driving it seems. Tanner took the first leg and Drake took the rest. We stopped at the rest stop with the wagon trail ruts and talked about coming across the country in a wagon - life was certainly much harder for our ancestors. 

We took the interstate route this time as our Runza stop didn’t work out if we went up through central Nebraska. It turns out there is a new Runza in Central City which was great for our stop. 

The drive took around 8 hours and 15 minutes and that was with a painfully long stop for gas. Drake and I were talking about how much faster it is now that they are older and I’m not the only driver. The stops are faster when you don’t have to run around to get energy out or help two additional people go to the bathroom. 

It was funny when a Facebook memory popped up chronically a trip a few years back. That trip took almost 10 hours. While much has stayed the same with our trips to Pender, the length of the drive has not (thankfully). 

The co pilots

Palindrome 


Traffic jam in Nebraska 

Tried to get the sunset outside of Pilger 

12 years ago (boys would have been 7 and 4)….wow