Day 17! 12 hour drive dodging weather

We drove from Shawnee, OK where we were hosted by Bill and Kathy Buchanan of Kid's Celebration, a show we met at the ill fated Los Angeles Spring Fair. They were fantastic hosts and treated us so kindly and generously. We have been blessed by such people our entire trip. Thank you Bill, Kathy and Fam.

As you have seen in the news the tornadoes are nuts this year. Joplin,MO, where we came close to staying near this past week, was devastated. I also heard from our friends and hosts in Watonga, Ok that the town we did a show in last week, Canton, OK was also hit my a tornado today. That cell moved on past before we drove northward.

In fact, we were behind each big cell that past through the mid west and plains. We missed major storms by a s little as an hour. We would watch the radar on my smart phone and realize if we had left an hour earlier we would've been caught in those storms. Thank you all fro your prayers...they worked.

Now we are in Janesville, IA and will spend all day tomorrow. The weather looks clear so we are happy about that. I was told by our hosts here that a tornado that did not touch down was in line with their home according to the news when they got the warning this week. WOW.

Our Hosts here, like in the other places, are performers. Eric V is a magician and his father has helped us at conventions promoting our show in the past. I thank them for opening their home to us.

With that I must sign off now. I am tired....it was a 12.5 hour drive.

Peace out.