Southern Illinois
I've driven through southern Illinois twice in the last few weeks on brief trips to StL. Tonight as I drove in the moon was hanging low in the sky, big and yellow and orange. Same as last night as I was awaiting a friend in the movie theater parking lot before seeing Harry Potter. It never fails to amaze me watching the moon rise through the sky, changing from an orange, to a pale yellow to a stark white as it does, quite peaceful really. Last time I drove down I stopped to take a conference call and grab some lunch at this gas station/Quiznos off the highway. As I was sitting in the car waiting for the call to start I saw an older guy on a bike ride up to the Quiznos. I looked closer to see the bike was a Trek 5200, a rather expensive road bike. I thought the guy looked a little familiar, and the bike was the right model, and really, how many people in Southern Illinois are there riding around on a $2000 - $3000 bike? I bugged out on my conference call and hoping to talk to the guy, but wasn't able to catch him quick enough. I wonder if it was Mike Magnuson, author of Heft on Wheels a favorite book of mine. Too bad I didn't catch him! That would've been a cool coincidence.