From MN to SD

I was taking a picture of the bug splats on my windshield but caught a nice cloud formation too.

I started late yesterday. My first stop was Morrie's Subaru in Minnetonka for them to give Wapple a quick once-over in preparation for the trip. They changed my oil and rotated my tires as well. Then, after dropping off my keys with Jan, I was off. The highlights of the drive:

• My fortune cookie from lunch at a Chinese buffet in Albert Lea, MN : "Your life becomes more and more of an adventure!"
• A very friendly employee at a GoodYear store giving me directions to I-90.
• Bug splats on my windshield as numerous as the stars in the sky.
• A bee as big as my thumb getting caught in my windshield. Eeewwwww!
• Occasional downpours that cleaned my windshield.
• Five minutes after I cleaned my windshield, as many bug splats as I had before I cleaned it.
• A 15-minute nap at 3pm and a 10-minute nap at 7pm. (I only had two hours of sleep the previous night.)
• In Murdo, SD, a young waitress who admired my tiger-eye bracelet and said that tiger-eye was for protection. (I was wondering why I had the urge to take it with me.)
• In the same restaurant, a short-order cook with a blonde mohawk that looked like the fin of a fish.
• Intensely green grass, like the Windows XP wallpaper, just 200 miles to Rapid City.
• Gray asphalt, green grass, black cows, blue horizon, lavender clouds, red lining, orange sunset.
• Allelujah clouds: Instead of sun rays streaming down through the clouds, clouds streaming down from the sun.
• Crossing into Mountain time at 9pm CST 8pm MST.
• Playing phone tag with my travel agent about my PI plane tickets.