The news for a long time had featured "drought conditions in the Midwest", but it was still a lot more green than the California I know.

  

I saw quite a bit of rain during the next leg of the trip. The only memorable lightning flashes were during the night while I crossed southern Illinois. That was a light show!

  

For some reason Roanoke, VA seemed to have the most interesting buildings that the bus drove past on that route.

  

I spent a few days at my Dad's house before going to the Green Party nominating convention. From there I went back to my Dad's for a couple of days before moving on to my brother's home.

I found this "sound bite" on the headphones of the guy sitting in front of me on the bus noteworthy. The guy was a teenager that was so busy ruining his ears (I may be exaggerating about the sound levels a bit) he didn't notice me taking this picture.

        

I left Blacksburg not long after the Colorado movie theater shooting spree. It wasn't hard to find a flag at half mast on the way to the bus station.

It was fun to get a picture at the corner of State St. & Volunteer Parkway in the volunteer state! The bus turned left not long after I took this picture. What a coincidence. :-)

The bus stopped briefly in Johnson City, TN. It was one of those stops that wasn't even long enough for the smokers could get off and light up. The most notable thing about the place was there there was a whole lot of nothing going on there from what I could see.