The vice president returned to Toledo for a parade today. Because of my extensive driving and roadtrip experience, I was chosen to drive in the motorcade. Before the parade, Joe even got to shake my hand. Clearly he does better in Toledo.

I suppose, if DR takes me to in n out burger every time I visit, I can come to terms with life without him.

LA is a riot. That’s why its stealing DR away from me.

DR and I finished our trip with one giant stretch. Yesterday we visited the new Mexico capitol in Santa Fe, watched the sun rise at the grand canyon, and visited the original McDonald’s. We did a lot of cool things in a short trip.

DR and I kept moving closer to LA today. We visited OKC, Norman, and Santa Fe. Lots of great places. Oklahoma U has a great campus and Santa Fe has the only round capitol building.

We visited our buddy Hank and his friendly alpaca, jerry, in Oklahoma. He’s stationed in enid with the air force. We toured the base, got to see the different planes, and played with the slight simulator. It was amazing. I want to stay.

St. Louis crushed all hopes of a breakfast of champions with champions. You are not our friend, STL.

Two big thumbs up from the brothers Amato. It is grand.

While I was napping, DR remembered that Rob courtney goes to school in Indianapolis. We were planning a run in Indy on the drive out west. So we called Rob 15 minutes out to gather his location and warn him of our arrival. He’s an amazing kid letting us stop on such short notice, run around his town, shower, and leave all in an hours time. We need more great friends like Rob.

Here’s the video that Johns Hopkins made about our mother, Nancy Pants, and her fight against Pancreatic Cancer. Pants is out four years after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She is in an experimental vaccine program at Johns Hopkins. They have done an amazing job and we are so blessed she is a part of their program.