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Yes, I'm still alive, thanks for asking. The past ten days have been a blur, starting with my brother and I driving the Penske cross-country in three days flat. It wasn't a sightseeing trip but here are some random pictures.
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Littlejeans could not have been better—a natural trucker. We were like
BJ McKay and his best friend Bear.
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This is literally the only tourist attraction we saw, and only because we needed diesel and it wasn't far from the freeway. I was a bit disappointed to find that the building is not actually made of corn, it just has a bunch of corn on the front of it. I guess maybe it would be a little impractical to make a building out of corn though.
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Obscene hand gestures from midwestern youngsters.
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That's Toledo in the distance.
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Littlejeans drinking water on the side of the road during a coffee break in South Dakota.
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The sun was going down as we crossed through Idaho and into Washington. It was a fitting end to our high-speed epic.
Once we got to Seattle, we unloaded all our stuff, returned the truck, and flew back to the East Coast. Emily and I are off to a wedding in beautiful Vermont, and then we'll take three weeks for a more leisurely drive across this great land, nowhere near the interstate.