Love Hurts

Third Day of Driving: Nauvoo, IL – Columbus, OH – 9 hours/486 miles

Stalker Van Exhibit #1

Our drive to Columbus was uneventful, except a creepy white van followed us from the end of Illinois until Indianapolis, Indiana. We didn’t think anything of it at first but the GPS kept telling us to get off at specific exits and the van would follow. Benson would change lanes, the van would as well. It probably didn’t help that we were reading, Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, which intensifies irrational feelings and distorts reality. Anyway, Benson was convinced he had done something to tick the guy off and I was convinced we were going to die. Eventually we took an exit and the van went the other direction. I still half expected to see the van pull up to us at our next stop. Alas, we were in the clear. Phew.

Columbus was a nice city (sorry Mom) and we scored a great four-star hotel right downtown. We got in late and were exhausted to we decided to watch some TV and get some rest. Even though Benson is afraid of Sharks we still watched Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. We happened to catch the show that told story after story of people who had lost limbs because of shark attacks. They even had graphic reenactments of each attack. How do you sleep after something like that? Luckily the bed in the hotel was extremely comfortable and we were exhausted, we slept great. Don’t worry, this story will become more relevant in my next post.

We woke up the next morning and left to see some sights in Columbus. I’m sure there is a lot to see if you have time…unfortunately the only part we got to see was the main street by our hotel. We decided to stop at a sandwich shop called Deli Boys to eat some breakfast before we headed on our way. After we sat down and started eating a man walked in and asked the man working for a coffee. When the worker asked him if he wanted sugar and milk the man got kind of confused and asked if he could have it on the side. He then went into detail explaining how he was taking a coffee to a woman he had fallen in love with that worked in a nearby office building. His story went on forever and involved lots of phrases like, “she wants a real man” and “you know how that goes man!” After getting her a coffee and deciding to take her a bagel and cream cheese he finally left the store looking confident and extremely pleased with himself. Benson and I started laughing and then all the sudden he showed up on the other side of the window, pointing at me saying, “You heard all that right?” I nodded and smiled, giving him thumbs up and he sauntered on his way just as confident as before. The man running the store started complaining about the whole thing. According to him the man was wearing a whole bottle of cologne and was probably on drugs. That’s just what the guy behind the counter said. As we walked back to our hotel we could see lover boy trying to explain the whole story to a security guard who was not going to budge. We had to continue on our way but I imagine him sad, drinking the coffee, and totally disappointed because he had used his whole bottle of Axe…Love hurts. 

Then, we started our trek to Philadelphia. 

 

Keep trying little buddy and next time use less Axe.