Dragon Con Day 0

We are on our way to Dragon Con!

Day 0
Travel
Sheboygan, WI to Mount Vernon, IL
416 miles

We are officially on the way! We packed up and left Sheboygan around 9 AM and made our way to Milwaukee to get some last minute help from Bob. I needed to make a new holster for my blaster that arrived on Tuesday. The blaster is great, but it was a little too big for the holster I have. Bob was able to help me make a new holster in about 2 hours. I have a feeling that we are going to have to make a new one sometime in the future, but this one will work for the con.

After constructing the new holster we helped Bob and Beret pack up their car. Trent missed a step and twisted his ankle and possibly broke his toe. He says it's still a bit sore. We met the caravan at 2 and we were on our way south.

We hit the construction at the WI/IL state line. Traffic in Chicago was backed up as usual. About 8 miles from our turn on to I-80, we ended up stopped in traffic. The radio said there was a jackknifed semi up ahead which closed all four lanes of I-294. After an hour and a half where we traveled all of 3 miles, we came to the detour where all the lanes of traffic were being funneled and we were again on our way. We made our way back to where we were supposed to be and found a convenient spot to pull off the highway and find everyone in the caravan again.

After that little hiccup, it was smooth sailing all the way. We decided to stop driving around 10:30 and made it to Mt. Vernon, IL. It's not as far as we were hoping for, but we managed to make up a little time after Chicago.

We have about 7 more hours to go. Tomorrow we have about an our of IL left and then we will get into Kentucky and the mountains.