1500 miles later...

Before I left the Northwest, I had registered my car in Washington for less expensive insurance reasons. I was a little sad about this, because I liked my Oregon plates:

OMGWTFBBQ!

But then I got my Washington plates and thought, well, it's appropriate at least.

Ooo.. is that something shiny over there?!

I am currently in Wisconsin and will be heading on to Chicago tomorrow.  But on my way here...

Yellowstone was crazy gorgeous

Buffaloes are surprisingly massive animals. And they don't really look like anything that belongs in nature; they seem more like Jim Henson creatures.

Missoula Montana was a great town and a random that I was hanging out with gave me a Thor comic book (also random!). I went to Deadwood, South Dakota, which is a little mountain town entirely devoted to drinking and gambling, as is appropriate. It's where Wild Bill was killed over a poker game. I saw his grave, and the chair he was killed in at Saloon No. 10.

Sioux Falls, of all places, was a crazy party night. I started out at a cigar lounge, listening to a bluegrass band, and ended up climbing fences in an industrial area at 3 AM.

I spent the next morning, hungover, drinking mimosas and watching Top Gear with an ex-race car driver.

Then there was Minneapolis, where I got to see some of the old Eugene crew!

 

 

St. Paul Saints game with Jef and EJ

BBQing with Mo and Taro

There are many more stories and pictures, of course. The specter of law school keeps getting bigger and closer as well. I applied for a grad PLUS loan and signed all my promissory notes the other day. Funny how I feel like I should be signing in blood.

And yet, somehow I keep having dreams that I'm back in Tamarindo.