Day 1

So we started out on our journey yesterday, alex and I in our Nissan Versa. Cruise control was abused and the air conditioning never stopped as we made our way from Syracuse through the top right of Pennsylvania and into Ohio.


Eventually we ended up in Columbus, where the people who were possibly going to put us up for the night were nowhere to be found. Not to be deterred we got some amazing burritos at chipotles to kill some time. After eating we still needed something to do while calls were made and close to distant relatives were mobilized to get us a roof and a place to sleep, so we went to the local rave


(it's a movie theater) and saw robin hood, which was fairly well done, an interesting revisiting of the time honored story we know so well. The action sequences were well choreographed and the interactions between the main characters felt pretty good with the notable exception of the robin/marian pairing which seemed slightly contrived and rushed. Other than that good movie and worth checking out if you like the genre.

After the movie we had a confirmed place to stay and headed over to jeni's ice cream,


a place that had been recomended to us as "the best place on earth". Slightly skeptical I approached this supposed beacon of human creation and I raised a hopeful eyebrow at the long line of people queued to partake in this experience at 10pm. As we traversed the line we saw flavors the likes of which have never been seen, with names so odd and foreign that none remain in my memory save cherry lambic sorbet, which was the final decision I arrived at. Ladies and gentlemen the flavor which was contained in that freshly made waffle cone was unexplainable. The hype was not hype at all but an honest relation of the great quality of their product and service. My only regret is that we did not stay longer in order to sample the entirety of their collection.

After our brief ascent into the realm of flavors previously unknown we headed to a sister of a friend of alex's house. She and her husband put us up for the night in their living room and I had a lovely nights rest, a hot shower, some apple jacks and much entertainment by Kaiden, 3 years old.

We are now on the road again for the next 13 hours with a destination of a campground in southern Minnesota. Alex has the first shift and as we pass through brooksville, Ohio I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a good day.

Location:Reynoldsburg, Ohio