October Catch Up

Let me catch you up with the last part of October and early November.  From Austin I traveled north to make a meet-up November 2 with three college buddies in East Lansing, MI.  All of us are Michigan State University Spartans and MSU had a huge football game vs. University of Michigan.  The short version of the rivalry is that Spartans really don't like the U of M.  I traveled to Michigan by way of Chicago, stopping off to see my brother Jerry and his family. 

This leg added 1145 miles to the Tank's odometer.

 So from the west suburbs of Chicago I went up to Midland, MI, my birthplace and home of my father, step-mother and brother Jim.  Jim was kind enough to put me up in his driveway for three days (yay electric space heater!)

350 more miles!

 After a nice visit with the family finally, on November 1 I traveled to my friend Steve's house in Okemos, MI (just outside East Lansing) to get situated for the next day's BIG game! Sitting through 5 hours of cold and rain was well worth seeing the result:  MSU 27, UM 6.  We went out to a great celebratory dinner in East Lansing afterward.  1600 miles of Tank travel and man was it worth it!

 
Only 87 more miles.

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