Woke up at P.J.�s, said a quick goodbye and was on my way. I holed up at a Starbucks on some a very busy Lincoln Avenue and managed to get a ton of work completed. Good times.

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On the way outta town, I was sure to cruise over to Coudal Partners to shoot the shit with Jim Coudal. Inspiring guy, inspiring words. Nice enough to take an hour out of his day to hear me rant and rave about the last 30 days. Thanks Jim.

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Pushing out of Chicago got a little stuffy with the northbound traffic going home for the day. Once I hit Elgin, those lanes cleared up and it was smooth sailing all the way up into Wisconsin, as well as across the �Cheese State.�

I made good time, until I pulled off to gas up and thought I�d download an audiobook of the iTunes site. I picked the new Bill Bryson book, �A Short History of Nearly Everything� and began the download. Now, just how long should a 600 page book, unabridged, take to download? I was thinking maybe 15 minutes, and with a fill up, a piss and trip through the munchies section, it would be completed. Well, I guess that TravelAmerica truckstop wasn�t as quick as I had hoped, as the eight section download took about 70 minutes. That�s about 240mb of audio files, or, 18 hours in duration. Yikes. It finally completed and I was on my way, getting lost in the words coming out of my iPod. Bill Bryson took on a big subject this time around: Nearly Everything. My little thinker got a run for it�s money trying to grasp �Big Bang Theory,� �Outer Space and well, everything that makes you crazy trying to grasp it�s enormity� and �Atoms, lots of atoms.� Good stuff. I�m addicted.

I hauled up through Wisconsin until the ol� see�ers couldn�t take it anymore and pulled off some 180 miles out of Minneapolis. I cleared a space in the back of Big S by transferring good to his cockpit, made a bed of dirty clothes and winter jackets and called it a night. This time around, I left the little �shade� pulled that VW supplies it rigs with, so I had no light invading my space. It was tight, but dark. I slept from 1am-9am. Wow. Tired motherfucker. It was a long day, and man, I need that rest to get me that last little push up to big city Minneapolis.

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Many thanks to Hoss for a good mission. It was good to share it with ya. Thanks for coming along. Next time we�ll do the Rio Grande River, or Colorado River, or maybe even that Au Sable River in Northern Michigan. Stay strong, brother.

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Special thanks go to coudal.com for the gracious links.
Special thanks go to Joe “Krals-burg” Kral for the bump on K10K.net.