Irrelevant Observations

I know, I didn't update last week. I hope I didn't ruin the week for anyone.

There hasn't been much to report over the past couple of weeks. I only have one week left, so next time I post here I should have my very own truck, so that is quite exciting.

So I figured I would wrap up my observations for the past 6 weeks, observations that I haven't made yet. Over the past 6 weeks I have seen several beautiful sunrises, a few stunning sunsets (I'm usually asleep by the time the sun is setting, so I mainly see the sunrises). I've seen buffalo. I say a bald eagle up close in South Dakota. He was on the shoulder of the free way (alive) and as I approached he took off and so he was parallel with the cab of the truck for a few moments before I passed him.

In my first couple of posts I mentioned how I learned things about the people of the states I passed through simply by staying on the freeway, well I learned something about Illinois recently. Well, the clues were there, but it just recently dawned on me. The people of Illinois are obviously heartless jerks. I say this because up and down all of their freeways they have signs informing us “Hit a worker $10,000 fine 14 years in jail” so I have to assume before those signs went up the people of Illinois would be driving along going 65 MPH, sees a worker in the road up ahead and figures that he can't be bothered to slow down or move over, so he just hits him and moves on. Thus the state figured it had to put up those signs to give the people a reason to slow down or move over, since obviously the idea of hitting a guy going 65 MPH wasn't deterrent enough. Also, for some reason the people of Illinois seem to really like paying tolls, since most of the roads you have to pay to get on, and then after a while you have to pay again for the privilege of staying on the road, then a few miles more you once again have to pay for the privilege.

One last observation I've made is that compared to most other states (well, at least the ones I've been to) Washington state rest areas suck, every state but Montana has considerably nicer rest areas than we do. On the other hand, or interstates seem to be in much better shape than most of those other states, so I guess it's a fair trade off.