1. Camera 1, Image 1
This is looking out the passenger side window of the car on the way out of the strip mall complex in Champaign where I went to the Target store to buy a disposable camera. That's a Burger King in the middle of the picture, across the water. I thought it looked odd with the tree and the water there-- the green area was big enough that I half-expected to see an old man and a little boy fishing in it.

2. Camera 1, Image 2
This is the monstrous line of traffic I had to make my way through to get back onto the interstate. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the small purple jeep with five Tweety Bird stickers plastered all over it, as it was being driven by very angry-looking people who I thought would probably hurt me if they saw me take their picture.

3. Camera 1, Image 3
A man on a bicyle is on the overpass. You can see reflections of the stuffed animals in the back windshield in the rearview mirror. For some reason, all these pictures look like they were taken in the 1970s.

4. Camera 1, Image 4
I just barely caught a picture of a broken-down car by the side of the interstate. As evidenced by the look of the picture. This was a really bad place to break down, as is most of the midwest.

5. Camera 1, Image 5
This is Illinois, as seen through the driver's side window.

6. Camera 1, Image 6
And this is Illinois, as seen through the passenger's side window.

7. Camera 1, Image 7
My next stop after Champaign was in a small town called Le Roy. I pulled off the interstate to get something to eat and get some gas for the car. Despite the fact that the area I stopped at was barely equivalent to a block away from the interstate, it was deathly quiet. I couldn't hear the cars from the interstate, and no sounds came from the town. Except for a man asleep in his car, there were no other people in sight. I ate at a KFC and got some gas, then drove to the business district of Le Roy and took this picture.

8. Camera 1, Image 8
This is what you pass on the way into Normal, Illinois. There were also what looked like high schools that strangely resembled prisons, but I didn't get any pictures of them. Sorry.

9. Camera 1, Image 9
This picture accurately represents what I saw most of the time I was driving through Illinois.

10. Camera 1, Image 10
Almost identical to the last picture, only much further down the road with some vaguely interesting trees on the left side there.

11. Camera 1, Image 11
This is the deceptive view you get as you drive toward Peoria, Illinois. The buildings in the distance make it look like a skyline of sorts, but as you get closer you realize the buildings are mostly set far apart from each other, making the city look much more spaced out than it appears from back here.

12. Camera 1, Image 12
This bridge makes Peoria look even bigger, but I think it's all a smokescreen. I have no idea how large the city is, but it didn't seem all that big driving through it.

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Except for my stupid finger, this is another accurate picture of what I saw most of the time I was driving. My mom collects these bears. This one's name is Hope. A sign for Jubilee College State Park is in the background.

14. Camera 1, Image 14
I believe the name of this rest area was Stone Creek or something like that. It was a very large place, and the design of the center itself was rather strange. It reminded me of one of the experimental hospitals that David Cronenberg was so fond of back in his early films, and the fall colors were pleasant, so I took a picture from the car.

15. Camera 1, Image 15
Behind the rest area was a walkway that led up a steep hill to a small picnic area. Looking down, you can see all the way across to the counterpart rest area on the other side of the interstate, but that's not really clear in this picture. The trees got in my way. Before I left this rest area, I called Brian's house and informed Kristine I was on my way.

16. Camera 1, Image 16
It's hard to see, but once I got into Iowa there was a field with a number of these strange little structures that looked like dog houses/teepees. I guess I was too far away from them for a decent picture, which is sad, because they looked interesting.

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The first place I stopped in Iowa was the Ampride gas station outside of Eldredge, which was about five or ten miles north of Davenport. That's where I took this picture.

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The sun was starting to set, and you can't read it in this image, but in the distance was the Eldredge Community Center and Skating Rink. There were a few cars there, or else I would have driven up and gotten a better picture.

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The sun sets in Iowa.

20. Camera 1, Image 20
This is what the entire drive between Davenport and Dubuque looked like for the most part. Wide vistas of fields and sky, and lots of open road. This road here actually is no longer interstate, but a highway that runs directly from Davenport to Dubuque.

21. Camera 1, Image 21
I attempted to get a picture of a somewhat creepy-looking church off the road as the sun went down. You can make out the silhouette against the sky. It looked like a very small town was built around the church there.

22. Camera 1, Image 22
I have no idea why this image looks panoramic on the PhotoCD. The print is a normal 4" by 6" picture, but it showed up like this on the PhotoCD. Strange. I'm glad it showed up this way, though, because I love the look of it. A real picture of what the drive to Dubuque looked like in the early evening.

23. Camera 1, Image 23
Hypothetically, if someone had been in the car with me, this is what I would have looked like to them. The red tint of the picture is due to the fact that I used my hand to cover the flash on the camera-- completely on accident. I'm very surprised the picture came out at all.

24. Camera 1, Image 24
I wanted to get a picture of the moon over the landscape as seen through the passenger side window, but the flash was still on. So you get to see a bunch of stuff in the car, and a little round dot that is the moon outside.

25. Camera 1, Image 25
This is Brian's back porch. There is no light out there, and it was very dark. Once I got to Dubuque, my directions magically turned to shit. I got completely lost and Brian had to come find me so I could follow him back to his apartment.

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If you were standing in Brian's kitchen looking toward the living room, this is what you would see. The apartment's floor plan is very unique-- the living room and kitchen are on the bottom floor, with two rooms and a bathroom on street level and the master bedroom up on the second floor.

27. Camera 1, Image 27
This was the morning of the 20th, on Brian's street. The white car behind the truck is my mom's. Most of the cars on this street did not move for most of the time I was in town.