This trip has been basically 3 years in the making. The second I came back home from living in Beijing in ’08 I was already contemplating when I would come back either for work or travel.

So I realized that today is basically the last day I’m home until I leave on Tuesday night. My bus to Chicago leaves at 11:30 pm tonight and I’m frantically packing everything that comes to mind.

I just got on the megabus and I really lucked out. It’s pretty much 1/4th full and everyone’s already asleep so it’s pretty quiet. The internet as of right now isn’t bad at all so I’m very happy especially because I got a seat on top and the front of the bus.

At 3m bus took a quick pit stop at a gas station in the very exotic, Mauston Wisconsin. Coincidentally enough, my friend is on a similar road trip coming from Chicago to Minneapolis so I was able to chat with him midway at the gas station which definitely woke me up and gave this short trip a sort of small world feeling since we didn’t coordinate the meeting.

So I got home from chicago around 11pm and I realized that since I chose a hockey bag as my luggage, I’d run the risk of everything inside getting wet if it rains.
I went to the grocery store and bought some extra large zip lock bags and proceeded to organize and bag all of my clothes.