Tale of the Tape, Day 2: Lawrence to Madison
Tale of the Tape: Where Numbers Come To Lose Their Meaning
Distance traveled: 527 miles. Iowa smells a whole lot better when it’s 35 degrees outside and your windows are rolled up.
Jinxes averted: 1. We were able to download Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen” via iTunes on my iPhone and play it before we crossed the Mississippi River at Dubuque. In case you don’t know, crossing the Mississippi without the accompaniment of Mountain is inviting deeply bad karma to curl up with you.
Time on the road: 11 hours ?? minutes.
Pit stops: Several, most notably the Amish store/Maid Rite fast food place/Graceland University in Iowa.
Embarrassing Midwestern naming conventions spotted: 1. “Kum & Go” should be an adult film title, not the name of a chain of convenience stores.
Identifying foods that start with an “H”: 1. Havarti.
Raptors spotted: I lost count after 9. I saw lots of red-tailed hawks and Ethan saw a bald eagle.
The tale of the tape will take a two day hiatus while I attend the Document Academy conference here in Madison. I’m not going to live blog the conference, but I’ll stop in and let y’all know what kinds of interesting things I find here in Madison…Karl Denson is playing the Majestic tomorrow night with Clyde Stubblefield, the original Funky Drummer. You know I’ll be there!
