Departure

Sunday June 14. Time to start driving. The plan today was to head out from Ann Arbor and make it to my brother's place in Milwaukee. Here's the stuff I packed (minus one bike):

The drive from AA to Milwaukee was uneventful except for two things. 1) The GPS I bought on Friday successfully had me exit and skip traffic at the last possible second in Chicago, woo! 2) The same GPS seemingly randomly had me drive past the Amtrack station in Gary that Joe and I parked at a couple summers ago. Weird.

Oh, I also made it through the first 7 of 9 CD's of "Finding My Voice," the Diane Rehm autobiography. I highly recommend reading this (and listening to books on CD on long road trips in general), and I had no idea how fucked up her life was. I know there are insecure people out there, but I had no idea how insecure Diane Rehm was/is. Holy balls. Lesson: Parents shouldn't beat their kids and ignore them.

In Milwaukee, I met up with some friends from undergrad at the Iron Horse. Here's 3 of the 4:

Eli Cooke missed the photo op because he had to pee. Catching up was great, even if these four working folk terrified me with their tales of the real world. Grad students, don't ever forget how lucky you are.