but I can't do that thing anymore, can't be the thing I was before

[pooka_madness]

If I were to take a road trip to the House on the Rock (and really, how else would you get there?), Google Maps estimates that it would be about 19 hours worth of driving. It's not all that different from the drive to Chicago that I did a few times, only with Boston as a point of departure rather than Hartford. Leaving from Boston the direct route would have as possible stops along the way:

• Albany, NY
• Rochester, NY
• Buffalo, NY
• Eerie, PA
• Cleveland, OH
• South Bend, IN
• Chicago, IL
• Rockford, IL
• Madison, WI

Some of those are, of course, places I have been before. But I could do it in style, this time, if I chose. Save up money and do a great big road trip to the heart of the country. The sort of thing perfectly suited for the Summer.

Maybe I'm crazy.