Long Day

It was a long two days on the road. The only natural sights we saw along the way were hundreds of miles of farmhouses and corn fields. Oh yeah..and lots of cows. I had no idea that we had that much corn in the United States. What the heck do we do with all of it?

In Wisconsin, we took a few back roads to get to our hotel. It was through hills and farm lands. All the beautiful farms and crops looked like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

The biggest news is that we almost drove off the road in Wisconsin...we sighted a Dunkin Donuts! We pulled off the highway and literally skipped with joy into the store! Ahhhhhh....Dunkin Donut ice coffee..life is complete. By the way, we have not seen one since.

We drove through Chicago, but Oprah refused to put us on her show. I know I would have been an entertaining guest, but she wasn't buying it. I also told her I would be her new best friend, and that I am funnier than Gail. I think that is when we had to run from security. Okay...that was just the story that Kurt and I made up in the car. I told you it was a L O N G ride.

We also drove through Cleveland, and Kurt was heartbroken that we couldn't get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Gwenny. I even dressed her up as Elvis, but they were not buying it.

My handy dandy, trustworthy GPS system that got me all around the country decided to commit suicide when we stopped at a rest area. We came back to the car, and there she was hanging from the rear view mirror. Apparently, we worked her way too hard. Thank goodness, we had Kurt's old one. It works at half speed, but got us where we needed to go.

We are heading to Niagara Falls today. We might actually pull into good old Franklin tonight. We haven't decided yet whether we want to stay on the road any longer. The first two days were overwhelming and the last two days have been long and overwhelming in a different way.

Due to fact that the scenery was beautiful, but monotonous, we had to find other ways to amuse ourselves. We started playing songs that had something to do with each area. We started in Madison, Wisconsin and traveled through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and landed in Buffalo, New York. Some of our listening pleasures included;

Illinois by Dan Fogelberg

Chicago by Crosby, Still, Nash, & Young

Ohio by Neil Young

Indiana Wants Me -Oldies, I forget the artist

Look Out Cleveland by Jackie Green

Philadelphia by Bruce

New York State of Mind by Billy Joel

Thank godness for Ipods.

Lastly, apparently my comments about the pace of life in South Dakota was not as funny as I thought to everyone. I did not mean any disrespect, but when you move at 180 mph like we do on the East Coast, it is difficult to put the brakes on and drive at 35. My apologies to the South Dakota Tourist Bureau.