The way we went

Here's a map I put together in Google Maps.We started at the house in the bottom right, headed West and North. Stopped at Mt. Vernon to sleep and met Graham:

He installs lights in schools and also does some rodeos.
Then we headed to the two flags around Peoria. Stayed and visited for a few days before we continued along the blue path to the anchor. Another few days of visiting, fishing, picking cherries before we headed South on the blue line. The interstate was closed at the fire and we had to detour a lot. If you were able to zoom in, you would see what we had to go through there. Slept near Danbridge, TN last night and home this morning.