These Iowa folk sure are thoughtful, what with providing a hot spot and all.
You’re welcome. Always glad to service Dopers driving through.
Wait, I don’t think that came out right.
You’re right in my neighborhood!
If you’re heading south, I could probably have seen your car outside my office. I’m right near the 35/235/80 mixmaster.
I was heading north, and I’m back home in Madison tonight. I was driving from Kansas City – about 10 hours on the road.
I lived in Ames for two years, about – good lord – 25 years ago.
Was the lord good for allowing you to get out of there?
I did my undergrad at ISU from 1981-87. I had three majors (hence my nom de net): physics, maths, and computer engineering, with unofficial minors in English Lit & comp sci.
I did that trip once, in an ancient de Havilland Beaver. There were no nav radios, so we just followed I-35 from Kansas City to St. Paul.
It only felt like 10 hours. I was on a folded-up bedspread on a metal seat that was shaped for a parachute harness.
They’re so by-God stubborn, they can stand touching noses for a week at a time, and never see eye to eye.
Huh. I was teaching religion there from '84 to '86. If you took Intro to Religion or Religion in America for one of your general ed classes, I could’ve been your teacher.
Actually, that’s where I got sober, so I guess so. 