The next few days were a blur to the girl. The girl drove the journey to Missouri. They met up with the driver’s brother and she drove the SUV in between the two trucks. That first night they stopped at a huge truck stop to sleep. They slept in between the 2 trucks in the truck parking lot. This was a first for the girl.
The next day they drove 1,000 miles and the girl was completely worn out. She didn’t make it the last 100 miles. They had to stop to let her switch with the guest and have him drive. She climbed into the back of the SUV and slept as long as they would let her sleep. The next morning they stopped to drop off the loads and the driver had said he would let them stay the weekend with him and his family until Monday when the guest could go apply for his job.
The weekend was nice. They slept on couches but they had access to the computer and they got to watch TV’s. The girl watched her first endurance race on TV. They went out to dinner the first night and had meals at the house the rest of the weekend. The family was very welcoming to them and very nice to them. The girl was very grateful for these people taking them in.
This weekend was another heartache for the girl. She felt she kept losing parts of herself on this journey and the guest took one more piece from her. They were outside with her SUV and he said it needed to be washed. This was true. It had not been washed since before they left Utah. What broke her heart was that he said they needed to remove all of her stickers from the windows because it made the vehicle stand out too much. The stickers the girl had were all related to who she was like her name or to her religion. It seemed the guest was taking one piece of her at a time. It was easier to let him take them off than to argue and she finally agreed to his taking the stickers off her SUV.
That weekend the girl did something she would later very much regret. She got a hold of a friend of hers that lives in Missouri. She asked if she could help them and gave them a brief description of what had been going on. The friend agreed to send them some money. Ironically she was not in the state of Missouri at that time. She agreed to wire them much more money than they had asked for. If the girl had known then what she later learned, she would have lied about the amount or not gotten the money in the first place. The girl was excited because she was sure this time this was going to get them to Florida.
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