"Mockridge owns the Minotaur, but what's as high as an elephant's eye?"

Steak for dinner and for breakfast tomorrow.  Low carb lets you lose weight without counting calories, because the calories you eat are so damn filling.  I see that there's a microwave in the hotel room, and immediately think I could make bacon if I had a plate and some paper towels (and some bacon).  Meals on the road tend to be raw.  Hotels don't give you the tools to cook, they force travelers into nearby restaurants.  Pitcher-plant-style symbiosis.

Speaking of carnivorous lures, I passed by a housing development populated by duplexes that seemed to be 80% garage.  Of course: survival out here requires a car, even before food.  Maybe even a truck?  The day felt warm, but slush and ice were spattered everywhere.  Stopping for lunch in Little Rock, I hesitated before stepping into the diner, until I was sure I wasn't going to be impaled by a falling icicle.  The same latitude as Atlanta, but something puts an edge on the weather, something that demands four-wheel-drive and space to haul hay-bales.

On the radio today, between Egypt updates, proposed budget cuts were discussed.  A program that gives heating fuel to people who need it.  That is, they can only afford a big house in the frozen wastelands where humans should not live unless they are paid (cf Antarctica, Alaska).  Or else it's a family tradition to die in Maine.  Or else they're welfare queens or whatever ridiculous straw-man we've come up with now.

I can't tell if I'm still losing weight, or if my perceptions are being shifted ("expanded," you could say) by the people I see in the restaurants, the lobbies, the gas stations, the rest areas, and especially behind the wheel.

Oh, right.  All the rest areas in Arkansas were originally built segregated.  Two sets of Male and Female bathrooms.  Now they just keep one closed until it's time to clean the other one.

Looking over my route again, I just calculated that Las Vegas is actually about half an hour out of my way.  Hmm!  Though of course if I went there, I might stay for more than one day.

I still haven't made the phone calls I should.  There's always tomorrow, until there isn't.