A long day of driving today. I was in Nebraska yesterday, out at a place in Bellevue called the Game Shoppe. If you are a person who’s into gaming near Omaha, folks, this is the place to go. Serious representation of role-playing game titles and a massive collection of board games and war miniatures. Combine that with cards, many tables and an awesome staff and you have an excellent gaming store. To say the least, I was impressed.
Now, first, let me tell you a bit about Nebraska and Iowa: there is corn, kids. A lot of corn. I was playing a game with myself to see just how long I might drive without seeing corn field. My record, I think, was 3.5 minutes, and that might be a stretch. That having been said, the drive from Kansas to Nebraska, and today across the entire state of Iowa from west to east, was astounding. With weather that was more than favorable, a breathtaking, rolling, landscape and a great meal from a country place off the interstate a few miles I was simply in live with the landscape. Call me hokey if you will (I mean you, Felix), but there has always been something about landscapes that makes me feel closer to the gods, closer to the worlds beyond if you will. These are the outlands, the townships that speak of in CoE, brought to glory and real enough to touch, and I have spent my days passing through them, wishing I could stop more. But there are miles to move on and places to promote. Perhaps there will be more time someday, perhaps I will be able to make this run again. For now I can only wait for the Rocky Mountain tour coming up next month and look forward to hitting New England.
I drove for better than 9 hours today, probably closer to 11. I suppose there is a negative side to that; to driving do many miles in one day, but I haven’t really noticed it. I may be tired often and not sleep as well as I do at home, but I’ve hardly noticed it. I think the tour is the final representation of having actually fiished this book I’ve been working on for most of my life, it’s a transition of sorts forward. Soon I’ll be showing you some of the material from the next supplements and adding more to the site. For now, time to crash folks.
- Ashe
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