Stefan's Shipping off to Boston: Day 4

So I'm a bit tired and its a bit late, so this is going to be a shorter entry than usual.
Today I drove through all of Iowa and most of Illinois. The drive itself wasn't too bad. I think I'm starting to get a hang of this, driving for 8 hours every day thing. I becomes less and less of a huge deal.
Iowa is probably about what you would expect it to be. Hilly and full of corn. However its also really flooded. There are some really bad areas full of half-submerged cars and flooded businesses. That was pretty sucky.
The other interesting thing was about 200 miles out of Chicago I hit a GIANT thunderstorm. It was actually really cool because I was basically chasing is for a while, so I could see all the lightning and stuff. Then I hit it and it was a pretty decent amount of rain for a while, but all of a sudden it started POURING. It was crazy. Like I couldn't see more than 20 feet in front of my hood. But I was eventually out of that and made it to Chicago ok.
After getting to my hotel and putting down all my stuff I went to go have dinner with my Aunt and Cousin. However they live on the other side of Chicago, so that was another hour of attempting to navigate the very confusing streets, highways and sub-highways that is suburban Chicago. But I got there ok, and had some quaility family time. It was nice to actually socialize with someone not over the internet.
Then I navigated backwards in the dark, and didn't get too lost at all!
Now its sleep time.
Milage today was another round of about 550.

I leave you with Youngblood Brass Band