{"id":199,"date":"2008-08-06T05:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-08-06T05:09:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:09:34","slug":"the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The road goes ever on and on …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hyperion Shortly after posting last night, we pulled in at a rest stop, got one of the coupon books and found a el-cheapo motel (motel 6: It has a locked door and horizontal, slightly padded surface. What more do you need?).\u00a0 We got about seven hours of sleep and now we’re back on road and making good time.\u00a0 We stopped for coffee (of course), and other than that we’ve just been driving and driving.\u00a0 As of now (about 11:00am) we’re just through Toledo and heading for the Indiana border.\u00a0 Mother Nature seems to have a few plans of her own though.\u00a0 There’s a big “weather system” just southwest of us and heading towards us.\u00a0 If we’re lucky, we’ll just skim over the north edge.\"On<\/p>\n

Just as a special mention to one of our readers (and you know who you are!), we’re passing 40 miles south of Kalamazoo on Highway 80.\u00a0 And Mother Nature never did manage to get that “weather system” anywhere near us.\u00a0 Take that, M.N.<\/p>\n

We’ve been playing with our Satellite radio.\u00a0 We’ve listened to Latin, which is naturally in spanish, which we don’t understand, but at least it has a rhythm, actual music, and words I’d be able to understand, if only I spoke the language.\u00a0 Question: When did performers decide they didn’t need to enunciate anymore? As Whoopi said in Jumping Jack Flash: Mick, Mick! Speak english Mick! \u00a0 I’m so sick of “mumble, mumble, curse word, slur, mumble.”\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, get off my lawn you damn kids!\u00a0 I know I’m old, I don’t care.<\/p>\n

It’s now later (about 5pm).\u00a0 We’ve been driving and driving, but there’s nothing much that’s exciting to write about.\u00a0 The only exception would be the bright yellow crop duster we came across.\u00a0 It zipped and wheeled across the sky, spraying here, spraying there.\u00a0 And it was a very pretty plane to.\u00a0 I’d include a picture except: Gayle’s camera is in her purse, which she can’t get to as long as she’s driving.\u00a0 I can get to my camera easily, but the battery is still in the charger, which is stuffed into the electronics bag in the trunk.\u00a0 Next stop we’ll rectify that small mistake.<\/p>\n

Okay, it’s a bit later in the day.\u00a0 The camera is by my side, and I’ve even taken a couple of pictures, which I’ve scattered throughout this post.\u00a0 You might be wondering why Gayle is letting me do these posts.\u00a0 Wow! That’s a great question.\u00a0 Thanks for asking.\u00a0 It’s nice that people pay so much attention here.\u00a0 Anyway, the simple, unvarnished truth is that Gayle is doing the majority of the driving.\u00a0 And, superwoman that she is, she finds it a bit difficult to type and stay in her designated lane at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0 Why am I not driving?\u00a0 Man, that’s two great questions in a row.\u00a0 You people are the greatest!\u00a0 The reason I’m not driving is because every time I take over (and I have done a fair amount, don’t get me wrong), I start dozing off at the wheel.\u00a0 No matter how bright the sun is.\u00a0 And Gayle, rightfully terrified for her very life, has decided that maybe me driving isn’t such a great idea at the moment.\u00a0 The strange thing is, once I’m in the passenger seat, I perk right up and become a veritable bright-eyed and bushy tailed … well, not squirrel, that would just weird for someone with a cat motif to claim.\u00a0 And we wouldn’t want that!\u00a0\u00a0 But that, in a nutshell (there we go with the rodent stuff again, I just can’t win), is the reason I’m typing this rambling, incoherent missive.\u00a0 Where are we?\u00a0 I haven’t got a clue, let me wait for a sign to go by. \u00a0\u00a0 …. [time passing] … oh, there we go.\u00a0 We’re one hour east of Des Moines, Ohio.\u00a0 We’ve been dodging the weather all day, and our luck is holding so far.\u00a0 Des Moines just got hit by some heavy rain, but the system broke up and vanished before it could come as far east as we are.\u00a0 Oh, speaking of strange laws (we weren’t but just play along), did you know that Illinois and Iowa allow you to go 70 mph?<\/p>\n

Hey, guess what this is:\"Mississippi<\/p>\n

That’s right, it’s the mighty Mississippi.\u00a0 We were driving along and saw this little blue bridge in the distance.\u00a0 We weren’t thinking that much about it until we came to the sign just before the bridge that tells you what river you’re about to cross.\u00a0 We got really excited, in that pathetic, geeky way some people do.<\/p>\n

And another thing; here we are, driving through the heartland (or maybe, the liverland, since we’re a bit north of center), and we haven’t seen a single windmill anywhere.\u00a0 Lots and lots of farms, lots of corn fields, silos, cell phone repeater towers, and even a cow or two.\u00a0 But not one single, solitary, windmill.\u00a0 Hollywood promised us windmills.\u00a0 Could Hollywood have lied to us?\u00a0 They can’t have.\u00a0 All the movies about the central US have windmills. \u00a0 The people of Iowa must be hiding them from us.\u00a0 Maybe painted plaid and hidden behind a somebody-elses-problem field.\u00a0 Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.\u00a0 I’m glad we figured that one out.\u00a0 On the other hand, they do have some nice rest stops with very pleasant picnic areas.\"First\"Picnic<\/p>\n

And you know how traveling America is suppose to be such a broadening experience?\u00a0 You travel the highways and byways and see all kinds of true American Culture.\u00a0 Here’s a great example of one we didn’t stop at.\u00a0 It’s unlike others we didn’t stop at only in that we had absolutely no inclination to stop whatsoever.\"Worlds<\/p>\n

Just to be annoying, we finally found windmills, but only within about 15 miles of the Nebraska border.\u00a0 Iowa just had to be contrary.\u00a0 After this thrilling find, we zoomed through Omaha and Lincoln and finally pulled off at a Comfort Inn.\u00a0 It’s only about $10 a night more than the Motel 6, but it 3 times larger and has a refrigerator and a microwave.\u00a0 Which would be good to reheat some of the cold food we packed in the freezer bag.\u00a0 Only problem is that the freezer bag is still in the car because we didn’t think we’d need it.\u00a0 I could just go out and get it, it’s not that far away.\u00a0 The problem is that every time you lock the car, the horn beeps.\u00a0 And, as with most hotels of this kind, we’re pulled up in a space right in front of someones room.\u00a0 And I accidentally hit the panic button instead of the open trunk button.\u00a0 So after the panic, plus normally locking the car twice, I really don’t want to subject the poor people in that room to even one more beep.\u00a0 It’s nearly midnight now.\u00a0 So, it’s going to be a cold sandwich for dinner, finish off this post and then hit the sack.\u00a0 We’ll be up at 7:30 tomorrow morning to complete the journey.\u00a0 The guy at the front desk says it shouldn’t take more than six hours to get to Denver.\u00a0 That pretty much agrees with my estimates, so I’m inclined to believe him.<\/p>\n

More tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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