Mile 992: Huge Sheraton room

Feels great to put my feet up on a King bed, crank the heat to 74, set up collection of laptop/phones/camera on the bed, and click on the 37" plasma TV!  Sheraton must be struggling to fill the rooms Xmas week because this room is embarrassingly cheap- great find Mom and Dad.

The picture I posted is of Louisville across the river. I took it from Jeffersonville, IN where my hotel is. I just finished a nice meal at Kobe's which is the only restaurant open tonight within walking distance.

It started to rain in the last 30 minutes of my 4 hour drive,  but it has stopped and is pretty warm out. They got no snow down here.

I haven't even seen a police car since I started my trip, let alone a speed trap. But as you know, I always do the speed limit, at least. For those of you keeping score at home, I have driven on average well under the speed limit- averaging only 53 MPH.  My time in the car has been just under 20 hours.

Some of the time in the car I have listened to a book on CD by Elie Weisel, called something like "A Mad Dance".  It is typical Weisel, which is thought provoking but depressing since his work is so influenced by his time spent in the concentration camps.  It is hard to listen for very long because it wears me down mentally and I can't stay awake. I find it more challenging than other books I listened to while driving - and I have listened to a lecture on "Chaos Theory" and a Shakespeare play which were easier to follow!

Interesting what the mind thinks of when the audio tapes aren't on. My mind has had over 16 hours to drift wherever it wanted to go. Future thoughts haven't ventured past New Years, but past memories have come flooding in. Many times I had totally forgotten those memories. Sometimes it takes getting away from the day to day usual environment to truly unwind.  But of course it's a rare luxury to be so selfish as to drop so much responsibility long enough to truly relax.