North Country

Lately, the talk has been taking a somewhat short vacation towards the far reaches of Michigan and Wisconsin to help a friend move. However, due to my severely tight schedule lately I have taken the moving plans off my calendar. Today, I want to talk about my trips to Wisconsin.
Normally when I travel to the northern part of Wisconsin I plan slightly over a week at the bare minimum. The drive from Little Rock to Ashland is a solid two day drive however, it could be made in one day with a decent copilot.

Normally, I stop in Missouri at night and my traveling schedule includes early mornings and being off the road once it is dark. My eyes tend to have some sort of night blindness in areas in which I am not familiar. In explanation, a large number of lights in my oncoming view tends to distract me from the road... I hyper focus on everything else other than the road. For safety, I am off the road by dawn.

Illinois tends to wear me down with its numerous miles of wind mills. I have often seen specials about the dangers of windmills on the nervous system and the havoc that they can cause on a household when they are placed entirely too close to a home. Illinois is the fifth most populated state in the United States. However, I seem to question that when I am in the middle of nowhere with nothing to look at but windmills.

My mind and body often gets exhausted when I am driving the roads with literally no curves and blades that slice through the air... The wind energy seems like it is so close but in reality the monstrous fans are a great distance away.

So what makes you tired when you are traveling?.... Getting lost.. Being hungry... or dealing with inconsiderate drivers?

My frustrations are getting lost because my sense of direction is horrible, almost to the point of making the wrong turn on my GPS as I am viewing it. Inconsiderate drivers rarely bother me as long as I am staying in the right lane.