Notes From The Road: Day Three

1:30AM (Am I in Kansas or Minnesota?) Stop at Wendy’s for dinner and am approached by weirdo guy who spent the last 10 minutes staring intensely at a Christmas tree. The nice and normal-seeming guy sitting at the table next to me asks if I would like to join him (because obviously this other guy is extremely strange). I decline and decide to just leave and eat in the car. The nice guy asks if I would like him to walk me out. I don’t see the weirdo anywhere and decide to just make a run for it, in case both of them are strange birds. There are so many trucks on these roads.

5:00AM (Missouri Time)Stop in Rollo, MO (right outside of St. Louis) to sleep.

High Noon (Missouri Time) Guess what I’m doing? Did you say “driving”? You win!! BINGO!

1:45PM Cross the Mississippi River

5:44PM Where the heck is Indianapolis?! Stop for a nap in McDonald’s parking lot.

8:31PM Six to Ten at night are my worst hours, I always just want to go to sleep and never wake up. I take another cat in the hat nap (so named because I pull my hat over my face and sleep like a cat for 20 minutes) and wake up in another time zone. How does that happen? Did I sleep for twenty minutes or an hour and twenty minutes? I still don’t know…I feel like my eyes are about to pop out of my head: they’re bloodshot and barely open.

Indianapolis no longer seems like a good place to stop (I want to be HOME already!) I’ll just push on to Cleveland…