Postscript to a Perfect (Driving) Day

After nine nights of wonderful restorative sleep in Michigan, I am back to normal. I think I managed about three and a half hours last night. I had very noisy neighbors, which accounted for the hard time falling asleep. I don't know what to blame for the 3:45AM awakening, though. Maybe some trucker's early morning shower? Whatever the cause, I'm up, showered, almost packed, and hitting the road by 6:00AM. It's raining steadily right now with severe thunderstorms a possibility in this part of the country. So whether I'll make it as far as Wyoming today is anyone's guess.

A quick comment about my next-door neighbors. A group of foreign gents are presently sleeping on the other side of our connecting door, but last night they were extremely loud. They were speaking a language I couldn't quite figure out (Arabic?), and one of the guys had one of those voices that really carry. I couldn't ignore them due to the volume, nor could I follow the conversation vicariously because of the language barrier. It didn't sound like a normal conversation. There would be several seconds of blessed silence, followed by a weird half moan, then staccato conversation and giggles. The best I could come up with is that they had on a porn channel. If they had to keep me up, I wish I could have at least heard the commentary!