Thursday, June 18, 2009

June 12, 2009

June 12

“Forward”

Shelby and I left Chicago this morning and headed for Madison, WI. It doesn’t seem like the obvious honeymoon destination and it’s so close to Chicago that we almost dismissed it when telling people that it was our first stop. But neither of us had ever been, and we’d toyed with the possibility of grad school At Wisconsin, so we wanted to give it a try. It was beautiful. We biked around part of Lake Monona (or was it Mandota) and said “This would be a nice place to open a theater.” We met a man selling a streetwise (or streetwise style homeless newspaper) gregarious and seemingly knowledgable about racing bikes. I stood out side the drugstore where he was stationed waiting for Shelby, So I got to hear his banter quite a bit. After any woman would decline him he would always compliment their top.
“I like your top.”
No matter the top! (He complimented some pretty blazaise tops, y’all.)
“Looks infinitely better on you than it would on me. I’m just sayin’ is all”
By this time the women were well down the block and awkwardly smiling and knodding over their shoulder. Then invariably someone with small children would walk by and he would say “How’d you get so short?” which would confuse the children. “Hope it’s not catching…”
More confusion.
“I better get some antibiotics if it is.”
Kids are well down the block confused and crying, parents are scowling.


We had peanut butter and honey sandwiches (from here on referred to as PB and H) on the capital lawn. Saw a statue with this plaque and continued on to Myre-Big Island, MN to camp for the night.



“Perfect Record”





We are 3/3. It always rains when we camp. It was dark by the time we got set up. It stopped raining long enough to build a fire. The tattooed people next to us had a couple of dogs and Shelby says again that she misses Kevin. (Our dog Kevin is staying with her parents in NC while we jaunt around the country) On a little hike we saw a toad, a deer, a raccoon, and a beautiful sunset over the lake.
We made a very nice dinner on the propane camp stove. Exhausted, Shelby went in the tent with a flashlight to write in her journal and read. I stayed out to watch the stars as the fire died. I eventually coaxed her out for a few minutes. She spotted what she thinks may be a shooting star, but is moving so slowly that I think must be a satellite. I’ve never seen a satellite before and not even sure if you can see them, but whatever that was we saw another. Bed time. Tomorrow, we set sail for South Dakota.

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