On Our Way

We left Ann Arbor two hours ago, about 11:30 am. Not the quickest of trips so far, as we've only traveled about 90 miles. Just had a long slowdown due to a multiple car accident that was being cleared off of I-94 between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo.

Ben called a while ago. He's on his way to Pro Worlds and has reached Milwaukee and will stay with us tonight. He's played several courses since he left Ann Arbor on Friday morning and wanted to check into our hotel early, but the earliest check in is at 3, so he went out to play another round.

Confusingly, Ben reports Dineen to be a "long and open course," even though the course maps don't indicate that. If it is, I can only hope (Sheila, too) that the grass is cut short enough to let our rollers make a difference!

Okay, what's a blog without pictures, eh? I just snapped this one of Sheila with my Treo 650. At the time, we were pretty much driving past Kalamazoo, the site of the combined Pro/Am 2008 PDGA Worlds.

I did roll over and compromise with Sheila. Instead of the '63 Corvair convertible, we're driving the 2000 Suburban. Her concerns were that the Corvair might have problems. Reasonable, I guess, but (almost) hilarious in that the Suburban has developed a nice, loud vibration at anything over 50 mph in the last 30 minutes. We stopped and checked the tires - they weren't particularly hot (the one by the exhaust was the hottest) and nothing was touching them.

But we have our fingers crossed and aren't going over 70. So I am letting Sheila drive until we get close to Chicago. Then I will switch over so that I can be at the wheel for the aggressive driving part of the trip.

More later.