I didn't expect to enjoy a full day of immobility during the first few days of our trip, but hanging out in Canton turned out to be a great idea. Aunt Cathy had urged us to visit a giant flea market off Rt. 619, so we navigated the Taurus through Ohio's maze of ice cream shops and got to the market by mid-afternoon. I bought some strings for Emily's guitar... and nearly bought a baby chihuahua who was sleeping in a crib, tucked between boxes of cheaply-priced produce. The puppy's mom told me that all his shots had been taken care of, but there were just NO way we could take a dog across America. We left.
"If you had bought that puppy, I wouldn't have received any attention from you for the rest of this trip," Emily noted as we walked away.
Back to the car, back down Rt. 619, and back to Rick & Cathy's place. They had just gotten home from work and were clearly tired, but decided to take us on a driving tour of Canton anyway. Such nice people... Halfway through our sightseeing, we stopped at a restaurant located inside an old horse stable. Emily and I are realizing the difficulty in traveling across America's culinary landscape as vegetarians, but the stir-fry was good. The company was even better.
Tomorrow: Ann Arbor. It's a 3.5-hour drive if you take the interstate, which means we're giving ourselves 5 hours to tackle the backroads of Ohio and southern Michigan. Ann Arbor will be our first Couchsurfing experience, so we're very excited about that. Then it's on to Chicago (home of the only all-vegan fast food joint) and... well... we don't know where we're going after that. We'll see. If I don't update this thing in several days, it means we fell in love with Ann Arbor and decided to seek permanent housing in the abandoned stacks of some U.Michigan library.
- Andrew
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