We arrived to our evening camp site with spare time and energy. Alec cooked a great shrimp/veggie creation for dinner. That and a hot shower and we are in paradise now. Tomorrow we sleep in since there is only about 150 miles left to Scranton. Then do a little last minute Warped Tour shopping and the real adventure begins. Alec is a little nervous about her project. It will be great! Night night!
MLH
Monday, July 13, 2009
New Record
Wow! 10 bucks at the last Toll Booth. How do people afford to leave their farm houses?
Also, excuse the spelling errors. At least they are proof that I don't have a ghost writer. To know me is to tolerate my crappy spelling.
Out of shot gun and on to cruise control with me! See ya, MLH
Also, excuse the spelling errors. At least they are proof that I don't have a ghost writer. To know me is to tolerate my crappy spelling.
Out of shot gun and on to cruise control with me! See ya, MLH
Since Notre Dame we have eaten (finall !!!!) at the Coffee Basket and covered another several hundred miles passing through Tolido and Cleaveland.
I'm not totally dumb so I have already booked our site for tonight in Woodlands Pennsylvania where we are promised showers (we stink), a pool and a pull-through (though you would be impressed with my newly acquired back-up skills).
So this is where I leave off, Warren, Ohio, Kim Borches birth state among other less important things.
Alec needs relief so I bid you happy trails for now.
Love ya,
MLH
I'm not totally dumb so I have already booked our site for tonight in Woodlands Pennsylvania where we are promised showers (we stink), a pool and a pull-through (though you would be impressed with my newly acquired back-up skills).
So this is where I leave off, Warren, Ohio, Kim Borches birth state among other less important things.
Alec needs relief so I bid you happy trails for now.
Love ya,
MLH
Erie county today
Up at t he crack of dawn and back on the road brings us nearly up to speed. As luck would have it the College of Notre Dame was mere miles from where we had laid our weary heads, so off 80 and through another toll booth (they get you coming and going every time) we turned left into the gate just as the sun started to rise over Jesus. "I found Jesus" Alec declared. That and a HUGE professional sized football stadium.
ND is much like USC; spotlessly clean, brick with statues of saints and sports stars mixed together. Its very impressive, as the royalty of Catholic colleges should be. We had fun walking through campus. A few joggers, construction workers with lunch pales and us rounded out the population of the place. Too bad we hadn't set up our tent trailer there! Would have slept much better.
ND is much like USC; spotlessly clean, brick with statues of saints and sports stars mixed together. Its very impressive, as the royalty of Catholic colleges should be. We had fun walking through campus. A few joggers, construction workers with lunch pales and us rounded out the population of the place. Too bad we hadn't set up our tent trailer there! Would have slept much better.
Erie county today
Up at the crack of dawn and back on the road brings us nearly up to speed. As luck would have it the College of Notre Dame was mere miles from where we had laid our weary heads, so off 80 and through another toll booth (they get you coming and going every time)
The three of us walked around in a dream state until our stomaches could take no more emptiness at which point it was nearing 11 PM. Destiny was awaiting re-freshed after he nap an even Lu Lu revived from her coma so we headed out of Chicago tired, hungry (still no food all day) but happy.
The happiness faded though as we merged back into the insanity of the toll booths, traffic and potholes. I think we spent upwards of $40 bucks on tolls yesterday. Crazy!
The Indiana border proved to be a sea of paper factories (at least from the smell I couldn't really see anything beyond my beams) with narry a camp site to be had. Finally about 50 miles later, I waved the white flag and we pulled in to a Yogi Bear "camp resort".....that wanted to charge 60 bucks for a site. No F-ing way....especially after the 40 bucks ingested by the the toll takers.
Long story short, we slept not peacefully in the car.
The happiness faded though as we merged back into the insanity of the toll booths, traffic and potholes. I think we spent upwards of $40 bucks on tolls yesterday. Crazy!
The Indiana border proved to be a sea of paper factories (at least from the smell I couldn't really see anything beyond my beams) with narry a camp site to be had. Finally about 50 miles later, I waved the white flag and we pulled in to a Yogi Bear "camp resort".....that wanted to charge 60 bucks for a site. No F-ing way....especially after the 40 bucks ingested by the the toll takers.
Long story short, we slept not peacefully in the car.
Though we didn't make it to campus until new darkness, Northwestern is indeed one of the most beautiful campuses I have ever seen. Maybe it was the dancing fireflies or the little bunnies playing on the lawn, or the blue of Lake Michgan as background to the sailboats lining the beach, but I was sold. Plus, the hood beyound campus bustles with students, shops, restaurants etc, even at 10 PM on Sunday night.
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