Nyssa

Trying to mail a sequencing strobe light from a place that you don’t live to a Haunted House many states away, isn’t as easy as one might think.

We’ve been carrying this Haunted House effect around for weeks, across thousands of miles because it needed a bit of tweaking. Then we were going mail it, but didn’t get an address until 28 days into the trip.

Which is why we were trying to mail it to Texas, from Michigan, with a Texas return address.  Sigh.  Hopefully it gets there on time, as the post cards I sent from France are still in the mail.

Earlier…

We visited the lovely Presque Isle State Park, Lake Erie, in the rain and high winds.  The waves on Lake Erie are bigger than those on the Gulf of Mexico.  It cracks me up that those waves were so big (but not Atlantic Ocean big)!

So, not only have I added a new country to my list of countries visited, but I have added multiple states AND Great Lakes!  This trip has been fantastic for making up things to start counting… like photos taken, number of times the windshield has been washed, gallons of chili eaten, etc.

Speaking of chili, I can neither confirm nor deny…

…that someone may have searched the GPS for the closest Skyline Chili and then waited to eat until the car magically drove to east Cleveland, Ohio and then had Skyline Nyssa-Crack for lunch! 

I can also not confirm nor deny…

…that the car magically drove to west Cleveland to the other Skyline Chili, because the first one had no canned chili.

And I will certainly never admit that I may or may not have several gallons of delicious Cincinnati chili in the trunk of my car…

Eventually, we ended up in Battle Creek, Michigan for the evening.  Other than hunting chili, today was primarily a driving day full of radios playing Stevie Nicks, Ace of Base and George Thorogood… to which I changed the song “One Bourbon, one scotch and one beer…” to “One can of chili, on a pack of noodles and a mountain o’ cheese…” Which also explains why I’m neither a poet nor songwriter.