We’re nearly there. Not quite. It’s been a lot of driving – just crossing Pennsylvania takes a day, after all. We’re in Kenosha now after driving today though the end of PA, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, & then just the first tip of Wisconsin. It’ll be a few more hours to Appleton, tomorrow.
For those of you who have asked, or guessed, where I’ll be teaching: Lawrence University is the answer. I’m only teaching for a term, which is three months.
So, the trip. We started later than we were supposed to (of course). Betty forgot her license & her phone. We drove & drove & drove through Pennsylvania, & I finally convinced Betty to stop in a little town near the Ohio border called Barkeyville, PA. Ah, what a town! We found a Comfort Suites, checked in, & then went out to find dinner & beer. We checked one place that didn’t have any. We checked another. & Then, finally, I asked someone who said, “Oh, this is a dry county.”
So much for beer.
But the boys have been fantastic, absolutely lovely, the brilliant kittoi I’ve always known them to be.
Another highlight was that someone clever, instead of writing the usual WASH ME on a dirty truck, wrote I WISH MY WIFE WAS AS DIRTY AS THIS TRUCK instead. That was somewhere in Ohio, I think.
We have eaten way too much fast food.
We have sat way too long in a minivan.
We are very excited about arriving tomorrow.
& With that, I’m off for a bath, & a toast to Barack Obama for his Iowa Caucus victory, & bed.
Your book “My Husband Betty” has been the only thing that has helped me to understand the person I never knew I married, the other “woman” he doesn’t even really know. For some reason I decided to check this website to find that you are moving to my home state and living well within driving distance of me. Maybe we are supposed to meet? I read the first part of your new book and know you will understand when I say I it is frightening to think of talking about this life but I know there are other people who need hope and I could use some too. If we never meet then at least know I thank you and I keep your book next to my bible. It seems an appropriate place for the only reference manual to the life issue which has tested my faith to the max.
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