I am un chien Andalusia!

Hey, I'm in Seville! That is, Seville, Ohio, burial place of The Kentucky Giant. No, that's not why I'm here—I'm on my way to Louisville for Terrastock 7, and this is how far I got in one day of driving. According to Google Maps, the shortest way from Boston to Louisville is to go west on I-90 through Buffalo and Erie, PA and hang a left at Cleveland onto I-71. I thought about stopping early and staying in eerie Erie to check out the Great Lake in the morning, but it was only 10pm and I wasn't feeling tired so I kept going until midnight.

It turns out that random Super 8 motels in the middle of Ohio (and also New York State Thruway Travel Plazas) have free high-speed wireless Internet. Much faster than at True Grounds or Logan Airport or any other public wi-fi I've used before. Maybe it's just because no one here in flyover country ever uses the Internet so I have all the bandwidth to myself. Or maybe the future has finally arrived! I feel kind of silly for having brought books to read, thinking I'd be offline and bored. Instead I can be civilized and try to catch up with my Google Reader feeds. Or, you know, post to my LiveJournal.

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