reflections by susi: day 4

there is nothing like the feel of the miles passing beneath my feet. the open road, the windows down, the music up. as we left st. louis and road spread out before us, i realized i'm fulfilling a dream. the beautiful part is that the fulfillment is as good as the dream itself was. better, actually. my soul's been hungering for this freedom for so long, this latent craving lacing every day. i'd grown so used to ignoring it, i'd forgotten its burning in my bones. but that first day on the road rekindled the forgotten forest fire, and my soul is finally finding the freedom it sought. me, my sara, and my jesus on the road, saturating ourselves with america. i want to get to know this country in which i live. i realized, on day 1, that i really don't know this country. it feels foreign, though it is familiar. and every place we stop, i pick up the feel of the town, the city, the people. and i love it. so far, so good. i'm bound away, across the wide missouri...