I live in California, and the Mississippi is affecting me.

The flooding in the midwest is throwing a huge monkey wrench in our moving plans.  We had originally wanted to swing by Vegas (I've never been) and the Grand Canyon (Hubby's never been), then shoot slightly north but mainly east to get to the other side.  The Mississippi River, however, has decided to flood all our routes, so we ended up changing it.

In all honesty, I like this route better.  I would have loved to see Vegas, but it's not on my bucket list.  And the Grand Canyon is beautiful, but I don't want to drive all the way down there just to drive up north to bypass the flooding.  So we planned a new route.  We'll be starting out way more north than we originally intended, but we'll be swinging by some friends we hadn't seen since 2005, and passing through some interesting stuff like Wyoming and Sioux Falls, SD.

I'm still very excited about our trip!  No matter how we get there, I'm sure it's going to be a very memorable adventure.