In May of 2012, the Kansas City Temple was dedicated and Marshall was itching to go. Marshall is retired but since I'm still working, I don't have the flexibility he enjoys. I'm a teacher in a year-round school so we planned our trip for the first week of October, 2012 during my break. Marshall had already been to all the other Temples in the mid-west but I hadn't. So we planned our trip to Kansas City and as many other Temples as we could in our one-week vacation. Coordinating the travel, motels, gas, and Temple schedules, took us several days to plan out. To complicate matters, the first Saturday in October is General Conference, and all the Temples are closed. So, we really only had Tuesday through Friday to go to as many Temples as we could.
We left San Diego Sunday and drove through the night to Kansas City, arriving Monday afternoon. We visited the Liberty Jail, got some dinner and headed for bed. Tuesday morning early, we went through a session in the beautiful, new Kansas City Temple.
Hold on to your hat, it starts to get crazy now. Off we go, 250 miles east for an afternoon session in the St. Louis Temple with my favorite niece, April.
Dinner, motel, and headed for Memphis, Tennessee for a Wednesday morning session.
Wednesday afternoon, and a visit to the Baton Rouge Temple
Thursday morning found us at the Houston Texas Temple
Thursday afternoon at the San Antonio Texas Temple
This one is a beauty, you should go there!
More driving, meals on the road, and another motel takes us to......
Dallas, early Friday morning....
Oklahoma City, Friday afternoon.....
Lubbock, Texas on Friday night!
Can you believe it?!? That's 9 temples in 4 days! Nearly 5,000 miles.
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