Made it to Maddie's driveway
The drive from Wheaton to Geneva was fairly uneventful, I got through it in two legs, with one pitstop in Adair for food and gas, taking around 9 hours total. I bought a few new CDs and an audiobook for the drive (Speaker for the Dead), and listened to each of the CDs and half the audio book.
Unfortunately, I'm listening to the audio book from my phone, after transferring it from my computer. My computer bluescreened (a fairly common occurrence at this point), so only a little over half was transferred. The day after arriving at Maddie's house, I spent about an hour trying to trouble shoot it.
Five or so blue screens later, I've come to the conclusion my memory is corrupted. I might try to fix it again sometime in the future, or replace it. I've had it for four years now. I figure it's probably not worth spending money on it to make it better when something else is just going to break on it, and it's really old anyways. I need to figure out if I need to own a computer sometime else. For now, I'm fine without one. I'm writing this blog post from Maddie's computer, and figure I should be able to write future posts from the public libraries of towns I visit (or my phone if I need to).
Speaking of my phone, it thinks I'm roaming, and doesn't seem to have internet connectivity, text capacity, or calling capacity off of a wi-fi network. This just means I need to plan out my next spot before I leave. Maybe a little more planning is necessary, but that's fine. I can handle that, and it should work itself out once I stop travelling.
Finally, google maps. I needed to follow hand-written directions to get to Maddie's house because their house isn't on google maps. Apparently they built their house within the past 5 years or so, and google maps hasn't bothered to put their address in yet. I guess google maps really doesn't care about Nebraskan housing that much (to be fair, there's lots of land and not lots of people).
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