The unemployment bug bit me on March 18, 2009.

It won’t be long before I move back to DC to look for a job. The whole family is flying out here to help me move back. I’m truly blessed in that regard. As a ‘reward’ for helping me, will there be any opportunity for us to get Muffin Stamps on the way back?

Unfortunately, the opportunities are really poor!

Maybe the most reasonable diversions would be Fort Laramie, in Wyoming, and Scotts Bluff, in Nebraska.

or

Once we cross into Nebraska, head south and stop at Nicodemus? Then backtrack a little and then keep heading south until we get to I-70 East? When we get to Topeka, we could see the Brown v. Board of Education site and continue home along I-70.

Both diversions add about 3 hours on to our projected 30 hour trip, which doesn’t count time spent at the sites. On hour 27 of our road trip, would we still be happy that we stopped at those parks, if it still meant that we had 6 hours to go, instead of 3?