Staybridge Suites Columbia - Hwy 63 & I-70

... won't have to go through probate before your loved ones receive their inheritance. More, where wills are public, trusts are private, and usually harder to dispute. As with a will, you can create your own living trust by using software and guidebooks developed for "do-it-yourselfers." However, living trusts by nature are often more involved than wills, so having a lawyer draw it up for you in the first place may be the better way to go. Not ...

... well as a good protector.

Bill showed us around the outside of the house as no one was home. We saw the solar array that Bill put up for them for hot water. We heard the story of the next door lady who is a wonderful neighbor but was at first quite perturbed by the solar array. It was too industrial looking for her taste, and she could see it from her back yard...barely... so one night last year the neighbor and her ...

... show Darren the Missouri campus he always tries to discount due to his Kansas ties. We visited Kristi's brother Brian and his girlfriend and they served as our tour guides around a campus that has changed quite a bit in ten years which made Kristi feel really old. It's still a beautiful campus.

... last year of I remember right. Still the 70 freeway is still a boring ride.

Mary and Daniel made the best dinner ever and made me feel very much at home!!!

Headed north on some fun side roads in the morning. I have about a 500 mile ride. Nest stop...Appleton Wi. Gonna visit Mrs. Haines and family!!!

... with those movies. Really. You would think most Indians would coo at singing and dancing but seems the past few years most have stopped caring and are flopping even Shar Rukh Khan's movies becuase sometimes yea, his movies suck. I am really really looking foreward to seeing the new Amir Kahn movie Ghajini mainly because I kinda like Amir Kahn and because the main song from the movie is Guzarish, which ...

Today I had to get up early and pick up some equipment for work that I have to drop off at another one of my work locations in California. Got some pictures of the MO state capital on the way to Kansas City. Now we are just relaxing for the rest of the day. Tomorrow is the last day we'll spend going through the rather uninteresting areas of the midwest.

Sept. 17 After having our house batteries die during some of our coldest nights, we decided to upgrade to Trojan T-145 6 volt deep cell golf cart batteries. I found them in Columbia, MO and the shop owners let me change them out in their parking lot. Now we have 2 batteries that will give us lots of power for years to come. We used our new power to celebrate our 10 month anniversary on the road. If that's not romantic... what is?

Columbia, Missouri Day 1 - 8th June 2008 We didn't rush to get up today, which was probably just as well after a few drinksJ Zeb went to school to do a little bit of work on a paper that was nearly due (he is doing his Phd in Nuclear Engineering - a smart little cookie). Later in the day he took us to Walmart and then dropped us off at the Columbia Mall (I wanted to go there once again) for some shopping. Surprisingly I ...

... minutes or so - bad ones, red bull, jaeger, woowoos... all that college bullsh*t. Needless to say, I got crushed trying to make a respectable showing for past-their-drinking-primes 30+ dudes everywhere. Much of the football team was their, too - apparently you're not supposed to talk about a loss the day after... like I should've known that? Back on the road, driving hungover, I started collecting pictures of water towers and ranch ...

... Guy P. was there because he produced Jem Cohen's new Chain. I had to deliver the tape back to him. Roommate Christie was just chatting him up like he was her best friend. I kept thinking Patti Kim would like to be me in this moment. Me, I would have prefered to have handed the tape to Ian MacKay... but that's just the punk rock in me... Every so often my arthritic knee acts up. Usually during moves - going up and down steps so much. Well I have a particularly ...