NYC Road Trip: Cheyenne to Ames
We stayed up until midnight last night drinking and talking about AI with out hosts Veronica and Greg, so I didn’t get a chance to write this yesterday. All in all, it was the best feeling day of travel. Despite Nebraska being mostly uneventful it was an easy drive with plenty of stops for Plum and Po.
We made a slight detour into Omaha to go and see the Oracle of Omaha’s house. It is a highly surveilled street, and as we were taking photos from across the street I could hear some kind of speaker projecting something, but I couldn’t make out what it was saying. We only stayed a minute since we had to get back on the road.
I got us briefly lost inside a park while trying to leave the neighborhood and get back onto the interstate. We then headed Northeast to Ames, Iowa.
In Ames, is John’s cousing Veronica and her partner Greg. She greeted us with gin & tonics and snacks. We enjoyed them, and got to know her in the backyard while the dogs got their first opportunity to play for more than 5 minutes.
Veronica made us a true Midwestern meal of meatloaf, potatoes, and green beans. It was incredible, unfortunately John didn’t get to try the meatloaf. Veronica then brought out some fresh baked choco-chip cookies for dessert w/ Ben & Jerry’s. I spent the rest of the night enjoying more gin and tonic (2 more), while John finished his glass of wine. We discussed everything from old family stories, to ChatGPT until we wised up and decided it was time to get at least 5 hours of sleep before leaving for Columbus.