Calculating Your Route...

The forty list is coming together quite nicely!  This week alone, I've gotten two more adventures under my belt and it's just Wednesday!  Busy, busy!

The first adventure involved my mother, who often delivers the communion meditations at our family's church--and she's really good at them, if I do say so myself.  She likes to consider the season, current events, and whatever has been on her mind to be the guiding forces of her meditations, and occasionally she asks me to put together a PowerPoint image to help make her point.  About two weeks ago, she told me, "We need to go to Bald Knob.  I need a picture of the cross."  Well, alrighty then.  "You've never been there--we'll use this trip for your blog!"  Sold!  Let's do it.  I charged up my camera and we met in Carbondale to make the trip.

First of all, I was aware that Bald Knob cross is on some sort of hill.  Like, I knew it was meant to be visible for a decent distance.  But.  But I had no idea just what kind of trek it was going to be to get there, and how we'd see it waaaaaaaay off in the horizon before we were close enough to approach it. Yikes.  We had put it in to the GPS of Mom's car, but Sally (the GPS lady who lives in the screen of the car) gave up on us halfway there.  She got us to the Bald Knob cross ROAD, but not the actual place, so we followed the twisty, turny, no-visibility, narrow stretches of road on kind of a prayer and some instinct.  That road is a little scary.  Maybe even a little Deliverance scary . . . .  Eventually, though, we arrived at our destination (no thanks to Sally), and got some pics!  Behold:

This is where Sally failed us.  But we found it WITHOUT her.

What a spectacular view.  Southern Illinois is a beauty in the summer.

Approaching from a distance.  It was 98,658 degrees that day.  BTW.

The arty shot.  Liking the sun sparkles.

Twisty, turny trails.

Hoping that some of these shots are what she had in mind for whatever her meditation is meant to say.  We'll see!  The journey was worth it, though.  Maybe next time I go, I'll stop at Flamm's on the way and buy some snackage to enjoy on those benches overlooking the view.