My friend Jon playing bass during
a basement recording session for his band's new CD.
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Day 1: Minneapolis - Chicago
I awoke and finished packing the last of my belongings into my car.
I went to the Annex to say good-bye to friends I had missed the day before.
After getting Kay out of bed to come see me off, I departed Wilson Library
and took off for Chicago's Western suburbs. Traffic was horrible during
the evening rush-hour and I was an hour late for dinner at an outstanding
Indian restaurant with my friends. After dinner, my friends' band recorded
some music in their basement studio for their new CD. To finish my first
day of travel, we watched a truly bizarre 70's movie called "Electra Glide
in Blue".
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| Day 2: Chicago - Cleveland
I left for Ohio after sleeping in for the first time in a while. Traffic
south of Chicago, where I-80, 90, and 94 are all squeezed together into
3 lanes was a traffic jam of colossal proportions. I drove by what seemed
like miles of Semi trailers virtually standing still in the slow lanes!
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Morning rush-hour traffic south
of Chicago.
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The Indiana Tollway, five dollars
to see a whole lot of nothing.
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Traffic let up once I got into Indiana, where the only noticeable event
during the couple of hours driving was the switch to Eastern Time. Another
annoying feature of Indiana is the overwhelming desire to sing the song
"Small Town" by John Cougar Mellencamp. I must have sung it the entire
duration of my drive along the Northern strip of the state. |
| By mid afternoon I arrived in Ohio. The rural
landscapes were much more interesting and picturesque than those in Indiana.
I got to my destination of Elyria, OH, a little ways outside of Cleveland
and checked into the hotel. I decided to put off going to cleveland until
the morning and instead I would explore the area. So I went out in search
of Oberlin, and a coffee house called the Feve, as suggested by my friend
Sarah, who grew up in this area. |
One of many barns painted for
the upcoming Ohio Bicentennial.
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A house with a Carriage sign
in rural Ohio.
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I drove around the country side to see the
area on the way to Oberlin. This area is much different than the rural
areas in South Dakota, where i grew up. It's not so flat and boring, and
actually has a bit of character. It was very scenic. I'm sure this is all
a matter of perception and familiarity, so my friend is probably sick to
death of it and would find my home town picturesque and quaint. |
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