Voyage 5

So after three days of Pat and I going to the highest and lowest place in the state of New York, my birthstate, I left.


The first stop on my voyage was Syracuse, NY. I went there to find a mechanic to work on my car: the trip wound up being moot, but I found the town of Syracuse interesting. Syracuse was strange in that it had a lot of abandoned industrial areas.

After a couple hours in Syracuse, I drove on I-90 to I-80 West past Buffalo an "All America City" and Cleveland. I wound up staying in Sturgis, IN. I camped behind a hotel. Indiana was strange. Two women I saw had beards. I went to a Waffle House and that made me happy because they had Patsy Cline, Tom Petty, Hank Williams, and the Kinks on the jukebox. A 60 year old man said I took his spot and threatened to waiter to arm wrestle me for it. He then said he had manic depression.

Rouge stayed in the passenger seat of the car. He slept most of the time. These are the first photos I took with a disposable camera I bought from a Walmart in Indiana. I took a nap behind the Walmart next to a farm. From Indiana to Nebraska I saw nothing but corn fields and blue skies.