Day 4: 8/11/02:

• Went to the KOA pool last night. Lots of fat kids. You know, like Donkey lips from Salute Your Shorts.
• All shaved, chlorined, and fresh clothes
• departure: 5:20am
• Looks like we missed the Iowa sign. Iowa, what the fuck? [Iowa was so much better than Nebraska... First off, it wasn't named "Nebraska" so that was an easy one-up on that other shitty state...]
• Revenge! I rolled Nate's wallet up in the tent this morning. He mananged to save his belt though.
• Officially ran through a corn field. Wow, so many crickets. You have no idea. You run through clapping your hands and they fly everywhere, thousands of them, on your arms and legs, in your mouth and pants. It's hectic. [we actually ended up running through two corn fields... the second one wasn't nearly as buggy. We stole an ear of corn, only to be followed by what appeared to be the owners for about 15 miles]
• Albert the Bull sighted. Took pictures with his balls :)
• 7:35am, Hobbit hole, outside Audobaun. A small person, obviously a hobbit and not a kid, poked his head out and waved.
• A grasshopper just jumped into the car down by my feet. I freaked out and Nate yelled at me and called me a puss. [really though, what a puss!]
• Apparently there isn't a 50ft ear of corn in Coon Rapids. Thanks to the friendly folk here, we found an 8ft tall one that, "just keeps going round and round." Hopefully one day they will be free from the Garst regime.
• They also told us how to go to the ethanol plant, but we said no, CORN: C-O-R-N, why are you telling us about the ethanol plant?
• 11:15, I've said it before, and I'll say it agian. The Amish kick ass!
• Some mennonites were crossing the street, a highway no less, my camera wasn't ready for them, so we had to chase them down and get a picture... then they honked at us. Wow. It was afraid they'd throw rocks or something... [where the hell do the Amish get off using electric horns? sure, it was in a laquered oak box, but they weren't fooling anyone...]
• Off to Kalona... I hope we get some Amish there... That'd be great.
• Well, crap... looks like the Amish take the day off on Sundays... they must be off watching DVD porn and playing video games.
• Riverside: The future home of James T. Kirk. Sick. Sadly, we missed Trekfest by a full month.
• Butt ass fucking hot... yeah that about covers it. This ain't no dry heat I reckon.
• 12:58, crossed the Mississippi into Illinois. They don't have a "welcome to" sign either... just ones about the legal alcohol limit.
• 1:51, Drove a ways out of the way to find some crazy guys museum that was in our roadside atlas, but couldn't find it because there are no directions or anything in that damn book. At least we're off the I-80 ... [In retrospect, I think that the guy was dead... I mean, the book we had had't been updated in about 10 years, and this guy looked like he and death were gonna have beers real soon in the picture...]
• 1:57, We just finished the "who's a big pussy?" game... it ended with a draw after 10+ minutes of driving around Galvin with the windows up and no air coming out of the dash. Wow... it doesn't seem quite as hot anymore.
• We haven't documented out "boobies?" sign attacks latley... we've had a great number of different reactions ranging from, "Oh, yeah right..." to "I'm not looking"... I think the gals over the end Nebraska last night were my favorite. Got both the, "Oh my God!" from the passenger followed by the "I'm not looking," from the driver. Maybe the gal I thought was a lesbian was funnier, since she kept looking long enough to see the "I love you" part of the sign. [Even long enough to mouth the words "oh, yeah right" to me... man... I guess romance really IS dead]
• 2:02, Ach! I just got kicked in me nards! [We also found a sign for the Ronald Regan Trail. Wow... I wonder if it's just a big circle]
• 2:22, We are witnessing a butterfly holcaust. For some reason they're determined to cross the road in front of us and the trucks on both ends of us. [once we set up camp I pulled one out of the grill and saved it in the scrap book... maybe I'll scan it in one day]
• 3:24, At the KOA... We're both officially more over it than we've been on the entire trip. But, at least its not dark, and we're out of the car.
• Hot. Buggy. Tired.
• 6:23, -KOA-fireflies-12 pack of bud-fuck yah! [Brian Sez: Can you believe those were the only fireflies we saw on the whole trip? And can you believe we finished that whole 12 pack and then went back for more?]
  

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