driving and driving

I am pleased to announce that I have arrived in Willoughby Ohio safe and sound. The ride ended up to be a little over 6 hours, and surprisingly not so bad. Central and western Pennsylvania were so lovely and peaceful - the highway wound through green valleys, and while I know that it's the wrong season, it seemed like fall foliage time since a lot of the trees were a pretty orange/red color. I felt like Will in Good Will Hunting when he's driving to California at the end. Except I don't have all the issues he had. And I'm not as good at math.

I did learn a valuable lesson when it comes to books on CD. I put in the first CD of John Krakauer's Into Thin Air, was listening intently for about an hour, when all of a sudden it began to skip and the narrator began to stutter. While I was thankful the scratching noise was not coming from my car, I was upset that my story had been interrupted, and even more upset when I tried to scan forward to pass the scratched part to find that it brought me back to the very beginning of the story. I don't know how much I missed, but I think I'll have to start anew with disc #2 tomorrow. Boo.

So I'm staying tonight in a B&B that is adorable. The photo above on the left is in my room, and the photo on the right is a necklace I bought at a cute antique store I wandered into (Brooke - look familiar? Like the waitress' earrings!). It's a cute little town but unfortunately everything closed at 5 or 6 so I only got to go to a few places since I got here later in the day. So I'm going to take it easy tonight and rest up for my big drive to Chicago tomorrow. I've found the HGTV channel so I should be content.