20 hours ago

a short play-by-play of our night: we set out at 8pm, make it to chicago, spin ourselves ‘roud its loop, emerge on the other side, stop in gary for gas, get called “englebert and humperdink” by a passerby when we go to get our receipt, see an accident taking up the road, ten miles farther see an overturned semi blocking our exit, take an alternate route, see a twitching/just-hit animal (maybe a fox) on the side of the road, ten miles farther see a large bloodstain covering the road which leads to a disembowled deer on the shoulder, drive through irrigation sprinklers that had mistakenly been pointed at the interstate, run out of gas again and see the needle drop below ‘e’ just as we pull up to an almost-unbelievable service station in the middle of nowhere, and then get attacked by a dog at breakfast.
states covered: wisconsin, illinois, indiana, ohio.
still spending my days lazily blogging away at robbywillbehere, but will be starting to dual-blog here again as photos commence.
i had my first snow ever today. two days ago it was moderately cold with fall-attributed colors covering the trees (see previous post), but overnight the snow took hold and i might as well have been in a different part of the country, save for the few remnants of color poking through.
if there are equal good things and bad things in life, then by all means am i due for a mishap.
conversation had with the pizza hut delivery guy at 10:42pm.
him: hey, how’re you doing tonight?
me: i’m okay, you?
him: oh, i’m excellent; finally able to get out of bed again.