Day 2: Greetings from Blue Earth, MN
By SteveHello from… where am I? What’s Blue Earth, Minnesota?
Headed out at 9AM this fine morning, but got stuck in Chicago traffic. (On the Ryan “Not An” Expressway.) I ran into my first non-sunny weather, some torrential showers near Madison, WI. And I saw some lightning in the sky as I pulled off the highway before my original planned stop tonight. (I was trying to make it to Sioux Falls, SD.)
Observations: There’s a surprising amount of porn stores off of I90. You’d think it would be frowned upon in these god-fearing states. The best was in Rochester, Minnesota. It had a huge neon sign a few stories tall repeating this:
Pleasure
Sexy
Lingerie
DVDs
Organic
Smoking
One of these probably doesn’t fit. But it’s sorta awesome.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:40 am
Maybe “ORGANIC” was supposed to be “ORGASMIC”, they just forgot the S & M?
[insert joke here]
“Welcome to the Rochester Porn-o-Rama! We sell only free-range, grass-fed, fair trade organic porn made using sustainable production methods. Also we have some really cool bongs that look like Jesse Ventura’s head!”
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Don’t know when you passed, through on 90, but you’re lucky you didn’t run into a tornado or two. We were coming back from the Annual I-75 40-Mile Yard Sale when National Weather Center Warnings started breaking into the radio broadcast every three to four minutes. Fortunately, we were headed away from the tornado warning areas, but it was pretty freaky.
Next time you’re coming through Chicago and need a place to crash, say the word.
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
That might have been the horrible storms I ran into in Madison, WI.