It's about 50 degrees in Kearney, Nebraska right now, but the good news is my trusty Weather Channel tells me that it's snowing like mad in the Rockies. So, as long as the snow doesn't pile up too much to close the pass, I will be in Vail (hopefully with plentiful feet of new powder) by tomorrow afternoon.
I drove about 650 miles today which equaled just about 10 arduous hours on on the road. It didn't get to be tiresome until about the last hour or two though namely, because I spent a good six-hour chunk of my drive listening to an audiobook which Amie and Wally so lovingly loaded up on an iPod for me. I'll admit, this was my first full audiobook experience. I was skeptical of my own ADD tendencies in the car, but I'm proud to say I prevailed. Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" was a good length to concentrate. I can't imagine being able to make it through 52 hours of War and Peace or anything like that. But this was good: the reader had an engaging voice, Gunther didn't distract me with too many bad breath burps and the characters were odd, which translates to interesting.
So now I'm cozily tucked into my Motel 6 room in Nebraska, which was $39.99 very well spent. It's clean, charges nothing extra for the dog and even offers free Internet. I can't figure out how when you stay at the W in Manhattan for $380 a night or the Mondrian in LA, you have to pay about $15 per day for Internet, but it's free here. And I think they give me a continental breakfast tomorrow morning too. Ahh, I'll never get tired of a good bargain!
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