You Drive Me Crazy

Sunday 3:30 pm (Eastern) - leave Kalamazoo
Monday 3:30 am take 4 hour nap
Monday 1:30 pm (Central) - arrive in Houston

And now I shall provide you with a list of all the lessons we learned on the road today:

1. You can confidently tackle a 17 hour race since you managed to solely entertain yourself for the last 20 in a moving box without padded walls (now if only your bike had cruise control).
2. You will update your resume to include professional karaoke singer (with no genre discretion - if you know at least 3 words in the chorus and find the song entertaining, you will belt it)
3. Your urge to pee eventually trumps your urge to live, and you run into the rest stop with your knife in your pocket, open.  All the time hoping you don't trip and impale yourself or actually see another person because you know that little knife is all for show.
4. Arkansas gas stations have 24 hour fried chicken buffets. (I'm not sure which part of that to emphasize)
5. There is a town in Arkansas called Malvern (everyone at work gets this) AHHHHH! There is no escape!
6. When you are tired and your trunk is full of bike pieces, you can rival Circus de Soliel contortionists to sleep across the front two seats.
7. No one knows you have been wearing those clothes since yesterday morning.
8. Scott Hamilton has a highway named after him outside Little Rock.
9. Absolutely geeking out when "Walking in Memphis" comes on the radio is a given because at one point you drove the outer-belt.
10. You contemplate how stylish blue suede shoes would really be.  Or practical in a temperate climate with all the precipitation.