So I'll need a car down there so me and my mom are driving to Houston together. Fun. Its a long long drive from Madison (which I do miss terribly). Regardless... it will take us three days to get down there.
Yesterday we started in Madison WI and woke up at my mom's friend Katie's house. We got on the road at about 8, and started driving. Well... we got down to where we were supposed to hook up with I-55 going south and wouldn't you know? HUGE storms were coming. So we were trying to get to St. Louis that day so we decided to go west instead of south for a while. So there we were in Illinois driving around on rural highways during a downpour. The funner part was the driving through the washed out road behind the cop car. There was massive flooding. I will forever be haunted by this one mental image I have. We were driving on highway 76 heading south and i look out the window and its a huge lake for as far as the eye can see of brown murky water. All of a sudden my highway has an intersection and a road and power lines run off into the deep. All you can see are the tops of the power lines running off into the dark flooded abis for miles. It was a truly traumatic sight. There was some major major flooding down there.
There were also 6 tornados which we managed to avoid and we got to Davenport IL right before that system of storms came in (literally, i ran into the hotel just as the downpour started). So. We stayed the night in Davenport with the hopes of making it to Memphis in the morning.
For eating... we stopped at this little mom and pop joint and I grabbed a burger. Simple. Filling. Cheap. My goal is to die of high cholesterol before I finish this trip. I figure I'm well on my way.
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