Road Trip 1

May 15th
Time 8:51 AM CST Mileage 99352
Filled up on 9.5 gallons of gas at Bay Settlement BP in Green Bay

Time 9:55 AM CST Mileage 99378
Bought Cheese Curds and Mint Fudge at Steve's Cheese Denmark WI

Time 11:45 AM CST Mileage 99498
2 hours 56 minutes 143 miles 1.5 liters of water 1 b-Refreshed Glaceau Vitamin Water Some Cheddar Beer Kettle brand Kettle Chips and Steve's Cheese cheese curds and 1 less shirt I am now off of I-94 exit 322(Ryan Rd) a bit south of Milwaukee for my 1st Rest Stop at a Shell Station. It was neccesary.

Obserbvations-There was a Semi carrying 2 huge signs meant to be outside of a hospital that read emergency. It is almost scary to ride next to these, they are so out of place on the road, I just hope that they are not trying to be a premonition.

Time 12:40 PM CST Mileage 99522
IPOD voice recorder attachments are impossible to find. I am stopped at Circuit City at the Gurnee Mills Outlet Center and no love. But the bathrooms were useful, I have drank way too much this trip.

Observations-Creepiest Billboard ever. A bunch of kids laying on a beach in swimwear and there is Elmo standing up in the middle of them. This is for 1800beaches. I mean what does elmo have to do with beaches.

Time 2:22 Mileage 99576
So I finally gave up on getting an IPOD Voice Recorder, after my second Circuit City with a Best Buy and an Office Depot inbetween. I just bought a Sony Voice Recorder at the 2nd Circuit City, in a shopping center in Berwyn Illinois, instead.
The name of this Shopping Center is Cermak Plaza. It has something wonderful in its parking lot. A Spike. More specifically a Spike with Cars on it.

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Gas Prices
Green Bay 3.25
Milwaukee 3.49
Chicago 3.59

Time 5:32 Mileage 99660
I am tired of the rain and B and J's American Cafe La Porte IN was closed and this is the 3rd strike for this road trip. The first was the amazing amount of time I had to drive in the rain, second was managing to get stuck in rush hour traffic in Chicago at 3 O'Clock, and finally the Cafe being closed, this was to be the place that really kicked off the roadside americana theme of this trip as it was the place that a very americana book by the name of La Porte, IN. So 3 strike and you are out road trip I am going to drive as long as I can tonight and try to make it to North Caronlina early on Wednesday.

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Time 8:31 PM CST Mileage 99740
Filled up at Wolf Lake IN with 10.33 gallons of gas, so that makes my mileage so far is 38 miles to the gallon.

Gas prices
Indiana side of IN-IL border 3.49
Wolf Lake IN-3.38
Beaverdam OH-3.08

May 16th
Time 12:45 AM EST Mileage 99927
So it just started raining way to hard, lightning strikes and everything and I am dead tired, and that is why I am in a Super 8 in Maryville OH a bit outside of Columbus.

Time 5:20 AM EST Mileage 99927
I am off again and its still fucking raining.

Time 5:50 AM EST Mileage 99947
I just got through Columbus OH and I loved it. I drove through the center of the city and I had forgotten how soothing driving through a city early in a morning can be. There is a certain unfilled potential that exists at such a time. Even the bars are closed and few cars pass
on the road. There are a few people on the sidewalks either walking off a really late night or getting a really early start. But even with these things happening it is as if the city is a giant asleep in his room, sleeping as soundly as a stone, such that nothing can wake it up. I felt as though I was Jack in the Giants house and no matter what I did the Giant would keep on snoring.

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Time 9:24 AM EST Mileage-100137
Filled up at Marmet WV Go-Stop with 9.521 Gallons. Oh and I totally missed when my odometer turned over 100,000.

Gas prices
Marmet WV-3.24
Somewhere on I-40 in NC-2.92
Raleigh NC-3.02

Time 2:15 PM EST Mileage-100450
1100 miles 29 hours 7 states and I am finally at moms in Raleigh NC

Trip Path
I-43->I-94->I-290->I-90->IN-39->IN-35->US-6->US-33->US-30->I-75->US-33->I-77->I-74->
US-52->I-40->Wade Ave->Ridge Rd->Lewis Farm Rd