Not a really long day today, the drive lasted only about six hours including stops, and I'm settled in a hotel room in St. Louis. I'm taking the car to a mechanic my friend Geoff knows tomorrow, and with any luck, they'll be able to take care of the Air conditioning leaking problem. I started off the day pretty early, not as early as yesterday, but woke up with a pretty painful neck cramp, making me unable to turn my neck more than about 70 degrees to the left....

Long day, but a good one. Started the day quite a bit early, as the hostel had some early wakers. I found, yesterday, a problem with my air conditioning, and I wanted to get it fixed, but unfortunately, the gentleman I went to quoted approximately three hundred dollars just to look at it. I decided I could live without A/C until a mechanic that won't gouge me. Had a nice breakfast at a bagel place, bought an all-day CTA rail and bus pass, and went downtown to...

So driving is getting a bit old. I'm glad the next phase of my trip doesn't actually include many long stretches of driving, since two days of 9+ hours in a row is really annoying, especially since the tolls are so ludicrous, and my shoulder's been hurting. It's not getting better as quickly as I had hoped, but it's taking about as long as I expected. I'm glad I thought to bring audiobooks, or I'd be going insane. I've listened to nearly two Terry Pratchett bo...

Looooooooong day of driving today, longer than I thought it would be, despite not actually going that far, in the overall scheme of things. Started out in Wilton last night, with a power outage. Fortunately, it was cool enough that we didn't need the power, and because of my almost prescient purchase of a mobile device charger, I was able to keep my phone (and thus my maps) available throughout the day, despite a lack of charging last night. I said goodbye to ...

Day Two in NYC, and what a long day it was. The pedometer on my phone tells me I've walked nearly 40 km in the last two days. I don't know how well that actually matches up with the geographical data of where I've been, but considering I did all my tourism on foot, save for one subway ride from 53rd and 5th to 34th and 8th on the E train, just to say I had been on the NYC Subway, I'd call that close. Started the day once again in Wilton, which I will be sad to...