Sunday, August 24, 2008

I-80 (Day 1) - Iowa (Leg 1)

I left at 11:30am, hopped on 55-South and quickly approached the I-80W exit. My journey was beginning. I had decided (before I knew I had Sirius Radio) that I would need some company and the only thing worthy (that I gave up my toaster to take along) was Mark Prior - the bobblehead ( I was told by a 6th grade CPS teacher this has a derogatory meaning - but I mean it in the he's a little plaster man with a wobbly cranium (i know you wanted me to say head - dirty minds)). There will be pictures of him where I could have none of me. I think that's a fair trade off.


Mark Prior did not take this photo I did. That's why you can't see me. I tried to drive safely and taking pictures of ones self while driving isn't the safest thing to do. Oh well.

Driving out I was sure would be uneventful, that is until I made my first stop for gas at the World's Largest Truck Stop.

It was nothing short of amazing. An amusement park for truckers. This concept is brilliant, it's the next best idea next to a mullet hair cut.


Of course there are pictures to document the 9th wonder of the world.





Gas at the Truck Stop was $3.739 per gallon and cost me $26.45 at this stop (for some reason this is a big source of curiousity what gas cost me - so it will be relayed throughout.)

I made one more stop for gas in Iowa. $3.439 and a total of $23.34.
That was Iowa. Not fun.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

LOL, I think your old teacher got the derogatory terms mixed up. Chickenhead is what he or she meant here. The only derogatory meaning I know for bobblehead is in reference to a former FAC manager....

Anonymous said...

as you may already know when I lived in the Twin Cities and had to drive home to Springfield IL I took I-80 and I have been this truck stop many many times first by myself than with one child and then with 2 children of various ages. Once we had to make a midnight run through Iowa to avoid a blizzard and I went through that truck stop at like 2 am what a weird place at the time of day