Wait, you said you were stopping in South Bend...
So yeah, most of my stories don't come until the end of the day.
-Getting around Pittsburgh wasn't as bad as I remember it coming out. Maybe the hills shrunk in the intervening 12 months? I don't know? Maybe it was because the beginning of my day instead of the end. The one problem with it being early in the day meant it was impractical to stop and see wildpaltez. Which would have been nice
-I should have remembered I hit my doldrums around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, from my previous drives. If I just work through it, I get a huge energy burst later. (More on this in just a bit)
-There is NOTHING better than being 20 miles from the rest stop and needing to use the facilities for getting one over their qualms about passing slow-moving traffic!
-It must have been around 4 when I started getting my second wind. At about the same time, I realized that I had my first "use it or lose it hour" with the time zone change. I haven't been sleeping all that much anyway, so its pointless to try to use it for an extra hour of sleep at night. I would hit South Bend around 7~ish, with daylight still there.
-Well, if I was going to go past South Bend, it really only made sense to get around Chicago, or I would have had to deal with Monday morning rush hour. I thought there would be an opportunity to see another friend if I made it early enough, but car trouble prevented her from being able to meet me.
-Made one minor mistake which is being corrected today easily enough. At the 90/94 split I was supposed to take 90, but since I'm eventually on 94, I went that way. Still took me in the right direction generally, just a little further east of if I had taken 90.
-Got around Chicago and realized I was THAT close to Wisconsin, and being able to say I was in Wisconsin over just around Chicago was super cool. What can I say, it was almost 10PM I had been driving 13 hours, and I was a bit punchy!
Ok, I should get out of McDonalds and back on the road. Isn't it great almost every McDonalds in the country has free WiFi?
-Getting around Pittsburgh wasn't as bad as I remember it coming out. Maybe the hills shrunk in the intervening 12 months? I don't know? Maybe it was because the beginning of my day instead of the end. The one problem with it being early in the day meant it was impractical to stop and see wildpaltez. Which would have been nice
-I should have remembered I hit my doldrums around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, from my previous drives. If I just work through it, I get a huge energy burst later. (More on this in just a bit)
-There is NOTHING better than being 20 miles from the rest stop and needing to use the facilities for getting one over their qualms about passing slow-moving traffic!
-It must have been around 4 when I started getting my second wind. At about the same time, I realized that I had my first "use it or lose it hour" with the time zone change. I haven't been sleeping all that much anyway, so its pointless to try to use it for an extra hour of sleep at night. I would hit South Bend around 7~ish, with daylight still there.
-Well, if I was going to go past South Bend, it really only made sense to get around Chicago, or I would have had to deal with Monday morning rush hour. I thought there would be an opportunity to see another friend if I made it early enough, but car trouble prevented her from being able to meet me.
-Made one minor mistake which is being corrected today easily enough. At the 90/94 split I was supposed to take 90, but since I'm eventually on 94, I went that way. Still took me in the right direction generally, just a little further east of if I had taken 90.
-Got around Chicago and realized I was THAT close to Wisconsin, and being able to say I was in Wisconsin over just around Chicago was super cool. What can I say, it was almost 10PM I had been driving 13 hours, and I was a bit punchy!
Ok, I should get out of McDonalds and back on the road. Isn't it great almost every McDonalds in the country has free WiFi?