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ARE WE THERE YET?
My mom and my sister arrived at my place of employ and picked me up and it was ON! We went to the aeropuerto to pick up the rental car and were greeted by the newly crowned valedictorian of Satan's School for Girls who had just landed her first job as rental car mistress(of the dark). I would give the rent-a-car-girl a 2 trinkets score on the charm bracelet rating out of a possible 10! We chose an AMURICAN! car, an IMPALA, which was thankfully hugely full of trunk space. We were not quite ON! yet tho as sister and mother had forgotten junior's(me) shoes and camera. So back to Arthur before traveling on west only to encounter quite possibly the worst weather of our trip on Route 36 nearing La Place Illinois. I felt like one of the Judds(no not Wyyyyynona or Naomi) but the Okies from that Steinbeck novel as the dust swirled around us. Little did we know that Sister Marty's apricot tree was to feel the "apricots" of wrath courtesy of 60-70 mile per hour winds??!! But we were on our way to VACATION and there was no turning back. Who knew Illinois had a lawn and video store??? You can get your lawn mower repaired and rent a movie all at the same time. Has to be heaven!

We reached "Sleepy" Macomb Illinois and the EconoLodge for our first night stay. Now the Sleepy reference was for the Sleep Walking Bear theme of the room because this was a former TravelLodge and the cute Sleep Walking Bear in the pj's and the nightcap(not with a nightcap!) was the symbol of that company. Like Ward Churchill, I have taken to calling myself a native American(which I most certainly am) and I shall choose a native name of Sleep Walking Bear for my trip name! I have pics of the bathroom tile which I did not peel off the wall because of my mother's strenuous objections. It was a fine place to sleep despite the fact we found a stranger's pair of sweat socks under one of the beds. Sleepy was in the HOUSE! We rested. Prepared to resume our journey? This is how the Donner party started out on their westward travail too. Would we fare better? Thank goodness we had Sleep Walking Bear on our side!! Plus we had our OWN sweat socks!!!!