OK, so maybe Friday of the Festival is a bit late to start blogging on Cornestone, but the idea to stop sending email and start blogging only came to me last night. Hey, I'm 43, not 23 and part of the texting and blogging generation. Anyway, a lot of the blog so far will excerpted from emails I've sent - cheating? sure but their my emails. Thanks to Boom and Nancy for putting up with my long winded emails about this trip.
So we headed out on Monday, 6/25 for the heartland. It was me, Nate and Jeff (my landlord's wife's son) leaving just at 9 AM as planned. Jeff was with with us since his Dad (who he spends the summer with) lives about 30 miles off of the planned route to Cornerstone. Jeff and Nate spent most of the trip (OK, all of the trip) playing their Nintendo DS's. It's pretty cool - the DS's can talk to each other so they can chat or see each other if they are playing the same game. Day 1 was home to Angola, IN - about 10 hours with stops. Pretty uneventful - I-80 for lots and lots of miles. I loved when the Nüvi at one point said "Next Turn in 328 miles". One note on Angola - not much there except for the intersection of 2 interstates and some outlets. 2 comments from Jeff - "good thing Mom isn't here or we'd never get away from here" and (to me) "they don't call it a pie in IN - it's pizza - if you order a pie they think you want an apple pie".
The second day was drop off day for Jeff. We got him safely to his Aunt at the Troppa-tanna Tanning Salon and were back off to Cornerstone. I listened to my iPod on random to keep sane while N kept on with the DS. We drove through a couple classic midwest storms today - we could se them coming for miles and then watched the rain come like a line. Not sure why it's that way more out here, maybe the terrain. We drove almost all the way to Iowa before heading south on I-74. We got safely here to Galesburg (the birthplace of Carl Sandburg - who knew?). About 7 hours on the road.
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