Driving challenges

I got a late start on the drive back to Minnesota, somehow missed the exit to interstate 80 which bypasses most of Chicago. So I ended up driving in rush hour traffic through Chicago just knowing in a general idea where to go. Even so it cut an hour off my driving time and only cost an extra $8.50.  It's quite the sensation overload driving in such traffic. The drive back had numerous rainstorms and nighttime driving with the wipers at high speed and raindrops exploding on the sheets of water covering the road made it extremely hard to see the traffic lane you were supposed to be driving in.

Found out my sense of when the car is on the edge of losing control is intact. I passed a pickup truck  by going into the right lane during a rainstorm just so I could see the road ahead. 90 mph was the point at which it was imperative to start slowing down. This sense has been quite useful driving in winter in Michigan.

The whole point of going to MN for the weekend was to check out the two storage lockers I was renting that my ex was putting my stuff into. A 5x15 costing $90 a month and a 10x20 costing $200 a month. I thought I was going to put everything into the larger locker but when we checked out the large one it only had 2 sea kayaks in it, my friend volunteered his garage to store them for now.  And I picked up my Wellies for mucking about in the flooded trails I'm clearing. Snowshoes also came back, I steamed and bent these myself, real rawhide for the webbing.

This is my wrist holding the steering wheel. Contrary to first impressions the natural spasticity causes the wheel to turn counterclockwise, I spend  all my time making sure my right hand counteracts that force. For extremely short periods of time I can control it enough to change CDs or drink some coffee with a straw, straw because it doesn't require me to tip my head back. My elbow is on the gel pad attached to the arm rest which forces my lats to relax.  It was glued and velcroed on which of course will destroy the fabric.