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The day before going to MI, we drove out to Exton and ate at one of their fine dining establishments.
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The next day, we loaded up the bikes, and off we went.
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Beginning mileage: 47,787.
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I drove first.
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Lee sat shotgun.
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Then she took off her shirt - what can I say?
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Lee put on my sweatshirt a hooded nap in mid-PA.
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Our goal for the trip was to stop at a diner in every town. This was our first.
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It had a jukebox, which made Lee very happy.
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It's hard to read, but our first song selection was "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy". It was awesome.
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Lee laughs at the chorus to the Sexy Tractor song.
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After lunch, we switched positions.
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Lee takes the wheel.
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I had always been skeptical of the existence of Ohio. Ohio?!
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We had totally been zipping through the E-ZPass lanes and not even caring. But once we got to Ohio, the tolls were on us. Lousy Ohio.
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We stopped in Cleveland to meet my friend Dana from theGW for dinner. Lee rocks out on this cheesy guitar sculpture for the Rock 'n' Roll Hall-of-Fame.
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Lee sits in the letter "O" and waves to passers-by.
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While waiting for Dana we hung out at Jacobs Field, which was empty like everything else in Cleveland. Apparently the town shuts down when it's not "gameday".
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Lee on the wall of Jacobs Field.
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After dinner we drove off into the Ohio sunset.
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... and we switched seats again. Here we are!
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Crusin'.
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"...Last winter, Ann Arbor was all I had..."
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There is no better spellings.
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Homos for $1.99?! That's a bargain!
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We stopped in mid-Michigan for our third diner of the day. At this point we'd driven about 15 hours and were nearly ready to stop.
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The next day, we drove from the hotel to meet Lee's family. We got quite lost, and ended up on some dirt road, just left of the middle of nowhere.
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See? Dirt!
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There aren't many cell towers in mid-MI and we needed to call someone and ask for directions. Lee held her phone up to the sky to plead to the Gods of cellular.
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For some reason this crossroads was really photogenic and I took a bunch of pictures.
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So lost.
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The dirt road dirtied up my new shiny car.
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Crusin' again.
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Later that night Lee and I went for a late-night bike ride.
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We found a Diner, of course.
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We sat and smoked cigarettes and tried not to look so much like out-of-towners.
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Continuing on our bike ride, we found a late-night bowling alley. Awesome.
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Look at all these switches! I don't know what they do, but I flipped a bunch of 'em and ran.
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These little buggers were everywhere.
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Teen Action?! Is this where they make those Girls Gone Wild videos?
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Lee wears my underwear and irons my shirt.
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This man provided lovely classical guitar music for the reception.
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A line of Webster / Stoddards.
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Don made a hilarious wedding video. I see a future for him.
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Lee's had about enough of this wedding.
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Footwear.
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You may now kiss the bride... and proceed to get drunk.
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Punch.
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Lee munches on some sort of wedding snack.
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My plate of wedding snacks.
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We got all the alcohol we wanted.
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Beer.
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And plenty of water. Some of the men took to pouring the water on themselves in hopes of cooling down.
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I don't know who took this picture, but I like it. I'm sorta giving the "look at this guy" point to somebody.
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Rock 'n' Roll wedding!
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Lee and I on the porch.
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They had a huge sattelite dish with lots and lots of channels. How did we end up watching Save The Last Dance?
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Our table did the spoon on the nose thing.
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Mr. Webster put a cool wrap on his head and didn't even care.
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Lee attempts the "drinking beer with spoon on nose" feat.
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Spoons everywhere.
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The house we stayed at was designed so that the porch looked out over these amazing sunsets. We sat and watched them every night.
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On the drive back to the hotel we passed these foggy fields and stopped to take pictures. They were really spooky and amazing.
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Lee poses in front of a foggy field.
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This guy sang at the hotel bar and got harrassed all night by drunks. I had a little talk with him because he hurt my soul so much. He's going to send me his CD when it comes out.
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Lee sits on the dock of the bay. This is where I had my first waterskiing experience.
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On the drive home we stopped at this awesome Mexican place. It was delicious. And they had Selena stickers!
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End mileage: 49,460. Total distance: 1,662.9 miles. Woah. All in all, a wonderful trip.
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