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05:37:17 pm on November 11, 2006 | # |
Tip of the Day:
Spend the extra money on a nice hotel after you drive all day. It is well worth the extra $40.
Inori had her first IV experience!
Early this morning Inori woke up with severe stomach pain. We had to find a hospital. They took x-rays and conducted blood tests. Everything is fine, and they gave her some IV, shot to her butt and some pills to control stomach spasms. It may have been food poisoning.
Chu-chu got special t reatment yet again! Nice to be cute and petite.
12pm Left the crappy town of Elkhart, IN
Stopped in Joilet, IL for a pee break.
Today we passed the birthplaces of Ronald Regan (Dixon?) and John Wayne.
I am still adjusting to driving an automatic again. Several times I jerked the car as my foot searched for the clutch.
Passed through Iowa City.
We grew tired of the music on the iPod so we started to listen to the Berkley lecure podcasts I subscribed to. I envision myself listening to this on the bus to work in Portland. These are all free and quite educations and more entertaining than I expected. The professor for the Geology classes has a particularly humorous voice. I enjoy replying to his retorical questions out loud. As usual with my antics, Inori is initially amused, but that quickly fades.
I noticed at a rest stop that on their map they had Des Moines spelled as Dos Moines. Nice.
Stopped 20 miles outside of Des Moines, IA for Chu-Chu’s medicine. We called ahead to Portland to have electricity and cable on when we arrive. It was really night because the utilities work together so once you are finished getting electricity ordered they can transfer you to the cable company (Comcast), and they maintain your information so you do not have to tell the cable company also. Comcast told me someone would not be out to turn cable on until the 9th, but turned out on Thursday someone arrived, even though I told them we would not even be in town before Friday, but still a very good customer experience. We decided to push on to Omaha, NE.
We stayed at a Best Western. This was the best place we stayed at the entire trip. We were really tired, but got our strength back overnight at this real nice hotel. We got take-out from the Perkin’s in the hotel. While taking bags up to the room they played ‘Timewarp’ from Rocky Horror in the elevator. In the morning, while taking bags to the car, there was a cleaning lady int he elevator polishing the inside of the elevator. I’ve never seen that before. That is the mark of a really nice hotel.
