Day 90
We made it to Chicago … the 5 of us tucked into my van those 1000 miles. Everything, except remarkably ME, has been peed on by the very upset cats! So nice! The aroma in my car was let’s just say … pungent! A detailing is set for next week!
Once again I had time (and 1000 miles) to gather observances along the way and here are a few of them:
Yesterday:
1. Eastern Colorado is incredibly ugly. Southwestern Nebraska isn’t so great either.
2. Manure trucks are not a good vehicle to follow.
3. I think John Tesh is stalking me.
4. The new Nebraska state motto is: “Welcome to Nebraska … home of road construction, gray skies and humidity.”
5. In a humid climate my hair somehow gets transformed into a wand of spun cotton candy.
6. “Rockin’ Robin” and “Hang on Sloopy” are tied for the worst song recordings in the history of mankind. (“McArthur’s Park” might be up there, too. Who leaves a cake out in the rain?)
7. The amount of bugs increases exponentially with the amount of trees in an area. The amount of bug parts on the windshield also increases.
8. Each state has too many varieties of license plates. It’s too hard to play the license plate game now!
Today:
1. The majority of cars along the I-80 corridor are silver, black, or white (in that order).
2. A discarded McDonald’s bag that held double cheeseburgers for the dogs last night was a handy tool for wiping the sweat from my forehead and armpits (in that order) today while I re-packed the car in the jungle air of Lincoln, NE.
3. Who said humidity would be a good thing?
4. Spandex and its cousin nylon should be banned from any points east of CO.
5. Semi-trailer cabs come in an amazingly gorgeous array of colors.
6. There are 28 billboards between Denver and Chicago with a coffee pot on the sign.
7. Cats do not like cheeseburgers.
8. There are 362,719 cows between Denver and Chicago. I am hoarse from mooing at each of them.
9. There are some really ugly art sculptures in Council Bluffs. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think I’ll make my bug splattered windshield into a show piece in my new home!
And the most important lesson …
If one is sharing a bag of Cheetos with 3 dogs … one needs a bigger bag of Cheetos!