Reviewing each day on the road is like rummaging through a newspaper each morning. A newspaper has a certain familiarity about it...same stuff in the same places, easy to navigate, but different content each time you pick it up.
So far I've been almost no place that I've ever been outside major cities and, while it is different each day I've discovered that I can expect:
...lots of rain at some point along the road during this part of the summer
...lots of forest and field interspersed with huge tracts of water (usually named something like Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, etc...and about a million lakes.
...lots of different gasoline prices, so get it where you think the last low one is. Last week I was buying gas in Chicago at $4.55 a gallon. Yesterday I filled up in Kentucky at $3.23 a gallon...go figure.
...lots of the same fast food franchises we see everyday, everywhere, but also a lot of new (to me) names of regional fast food that hasn't taken the nation by storm...yet.
...lots of time to check out the scenery and appreciate some of the quirkiness of the country. Yesterday I saw a billboard advertising "Amish Style Cooking, at the Schwartz Family Restaurant." Had to laugh a little.
...lots more miles than I had planned for. Turns out my mileage calculator used to plan for this trip measured as the crow flies. I'm almost 1500 miles over projection to this point in only five weeks. But I expect it to get better once I hit the east coast...fewer mountains for one thing.
Today I am off to eastern Indiana and southern Ohio before ending the day in northern Kentucky in a private home rather than a hotel...it'll be a nice change of pace from the last few days.
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