We had originally planned on spending a full month traveling across Nebraska and Iowa. As it turns out, that's just as hard to do as it sounds. We crossed the two massive states in about 10 days and were forced to reexamine our strategy. We decided to curve up through Wisconsin before heading straight to Chicago and are really happy we did as we would have never stumbled across the wonderfully quaint and rustic town of Dubuque, Iowa. Read more
The freeway carries on it's familiar hum as we descend from the Rocky Mountains into the Denver valley. We find ourselves in a road-coma as we begin the physical and mental recovery from the last 3 days of brain-melting bass music and craziness at the Sonic Bloom electronic music festival.
Upon breaching the city barrier, we decide to pull over, find a park and further develop our plans of reanimation. While driving towards the nearest park, Meisha's nose suddenly begins to gush blood. We frantically grab any visible absorbent materials and pull over to assess the situation. Meisha's nose has never been a fan of dramatic altitude changes and doesn't seem to appreciate the drop from 10,000 to 5,000 feet.
This little incident is finally enough to convince us to do the unthinkable.
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