Hot sun blazed through the jeep windows as we drove northward yesterday afternoon. Air conditioning is very touchy in that stinky jeep — the vents refuse to blow cool air if the vehicle goes faster than 59 miles per hour. To make things more complicated, I’m so worried about maintaining reasonable gas mileage that I refuse to roll down the windows on highways because of wind resistance. Needless to say, Katie and I were feeling sick, sticky, and sweaty when I pulled off into Kankakee to stretch my legs for a bit. What was meant to be a five minute pit stop problematically escalated into a ninety minute excursion themed “squander your entire day.”

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