June 22, 2008. Ah, how I miss my sanity

Spent the night in a truck stop in Avoca, IA. Woke up to a brigade of US Army types storming the place. Turns out, they just wanted breakfast. Bugged out with Trainer driving. If those army types had learned we had a trailer full of cold beer...

About 50 miles down the road, passed a CRE truck in the median. Looked to me as though he'd spent the night there. Just a guess. Dirt in the tire ruts had had time to dry around the edges. Wonder if it was the same truck as last night. No injuries.

I took over driving at about 09:00. Long slow drive to Chicago. Well, Lake Station on the tri-state. Stopped for fuel just after driving through thunderstorm. While fuelling, the storm pulled in behind us - torrential rain, pea sized hail.. lightning all over. One strike was to a flagpole just in front of the store - maybe 150 feet from us at the truck.

Scared the yahoos out of most of the people and the vicinity (Trainer jumped up on top of the trailer from standing flat footed on the ground). I just started laughing like a madman.

Took off and drove for about another hour and a half in the rain and lightning, eastbound through Indiana. Eventually rain stopped, darnit. Drove another 100 mile or so, stopped for night just outside Toledo. Easy parking, for a change.