Fairfield Davenport

... were some interesting sites along the way. Like the wind turbines along I80 in Illinois that were highlited by storm clouds. But we thought better about slowing down on the freeway.

Yea, we drove the freeway today, but not tomorrow. All back roads to Lincoln tomorrow so we should have some shoots to share. Mike and Sandy

... his temp went down to 100.0 - we managed to sleep in and out for a few hours and left for the airport at 5:00 a.m. -- by this time Kevin had severe diahhrea - got on the plane and had a terrible trip to Tokyo - no thermal sensors this time. Apparently they were not worried about people coming in from Thailand. The 12 hour flight to Chicago is not one for the memory books - by the time we arrived we had not slept for almost 36 hours -- called Mark and ...

Ok, well, I'm not sure I can call it day 2 cause it all rolled into on long trip.

We saw lots of interesting stuff. Just kept driving and not sleeping much. Stopping to pee and for Sassy to pee too! Eating alot of ****... and driving, and driving!!

... one cool thing about Davenport is that it lies right on the border of Iowa and Illinois, which is separated by the Mississippi River.

On a side note, we have been listening to several books on tape during our long car rides. We just finished "Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler, and we are now listening to
"The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown.

We are ready to go! Of course it will be midnight before we are truly done packing. Kevin plans to start packing when he gets home from the Farm Bureau Board meeting tonight - then we are officially ready. Posted is a picture of our dog, Tempe. She is 10 months old and we are not sure she has been listening to us when we tell her we will be gone for 2 weeks!

I had a lot of interesting observations to make about today's drive but they've all been wiped out of my head by subsequent events.  More of that in a bit.  I started with a short detour to Cedar Point on Lake Erie cos I thought it'd be a shame to have come all that way and not see it (the lake).  The town's an odd place - obviously used to be a sort of grain port (some of the buildings reminded me of Albert Dock in Liverpool) but now there's a mix of rusting factories of some sort, old ...

... after a couple of hours and a lot of honks and dirty looks, we realized that no matter how long before my turn or manuver I put the signal on, people really couldn't see them. So as we cruised that first day, we left a wake of angery drivers, but we sure appreciated the landscape!

The thing about really flat land is that it makes for a way bigger sky, so while it ...

Nothin' but road. Eastern Nebraska and most of Iowa is great farm country but boring to drive through. 603 miles in 11 hours, did great. About 374 left for tomorrow. We passed a Google car today, eastbound on I-80 just west of NE exit 168. must watch for their entry, we may be on it.

... I can leave the set of The Q.C. Of course it won't be much of a weekend as the starter in the truck went out so I have to replace that. I guess to much travel for this project, the small light in this hole is that at least I get paid mileage. Ha!

... as AA or BA. Since we'd be in the neighbourhood ...   Me - I'm from Scotland.  I immigrated to the US 15 years ago.  I try to get back to see my two brothers every 3 years or so.  DH claims I am obsessive and compulsive about planning a vacation. Like that's a bad thing?!?!?! I worked on this 'problem', but I took it too far, as we'd learn later! DH - Thinks he's a teenager.  He loves learning new things; he found a "Learn Icelandic On ...