Laura and I have been trying in vain to find something of interest to stop and see along I-80 between Chicago and Colorado, and coming up empty. All the good stuff seems to have been saved for I-90, so that I could be jealous of my friend who's simultaneously making a cross-country road trip the other way, but further north. I've taken to joking about stopping and seeing the world's largest ball of twine, since I figured that's about the most interesting thing the Iowa-Nebraska region of I-80 would have to offer.

Well, yesterday on a whim I actually Googled for the world's largest ball of twine and made two discoveries: First, that there are at least three different "world's largest" twine balls, all using slightly different definitions, and second, that the nearest one to our route is in Kansas. That's right, I-80 is so boring that even the world's largest ball of twine is too exciting for it.

I hope that stretch isn't patrolled too carefully.

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