Shibaricon Roadtrip: Day 4
1:10 CTC Location: Danville, IA

You can only take the wide, empty landscape of I-80 for so long. When the dry brown nothing of Wyoming gives way to the green brown nothing that is Nebraska it really gets old. At one point Griffin looked over at me and said, “I feel like we are in one of those cheap cartoons where they re-use the same background over and over.”

By this point the Meatloaf has been replaced by Marylyn Manson, sung.. no screamed at the top of our lungs till we were hoarse… for 3 hours straight.

This would be the breaking point, 3 days on the road, 2 late nights and just over half the trip under our wheels and then we came to our salvation. The home of Sweet Raggedy Mandy and Dust.

Nothing wipes the grime and tire away from a traveler like being welcomed with open arms and a cold drink.

That night they fed us and treated us with more warmth and TLC than we really deserved. Griffin and I agree, we want to adopt Raggedy Mandy as our new mom.

Thank you, for sharing your home, sharing your food and mostly giving Griffin and I the much-needed refuge. A safe place to rest, re-charge and re-group before this, the last day of our push and the first day of the convention. For the next 4 days I’ll need to be “on”, thanks to your kindness, and yummy care package, we are going to kick all manner of ass.


Next stop, Shibaricon and the final destination for all this rope….