Monday, September 22, 2008

hurricane hannah meets hurricane ike and survives through the streets with boxes and bruises to show for it.

a week ago my mother and i drove up from memphis through the exciting lands of arkansas, southern missouri, and illinois. at the same time though, i don't mean too much sarcasm by the 'exciting.' as far as road trips go, mecca-ing to chicago has been a frequently trodden path for my mother and i for many many years, starting before i even knew to visit my mother's parents and continuing through sisters going to college in wheaton (suburb of the chi) and now myself going to school in the windy city. there seems to always be something drawing me back to this city (sign of something perhaps?). regardless, we packed up, strapped up, buckled up and set out for the isolated trip through crop fields, barren fields, cities with populations hardly large enough for their own city governments, and passing by (or being passed) other such travelers or those belonging to the 'cities' surrounding. the road up goes through no large cities, no metropolitan anything. the largest pit stop is only the cities where university of illinois, etc are located. i took the wheel for about five hours of the nine, playing music and singing and my mother watching on with a smile and a look of "whose child are you again?"





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