Days 36 and 37, Sunday, November 30 and Monday, December 1, 2008-
Not all travel is romantic. I arrived in Chicago ridiculously sick.
On Sunday, Mom and I hit the road at 7:45 a.m. in the snow. At first we passed nearly half a dozen cars in ditches, mostly with police helping people out of them. As it warmed up the snow turned to rain and it just rained and rained all day long. At least the roads weren’t frozen. By the end of the day I was sick as could be. I went straight to bed when we arrived in Chicago.
Fortunately I was with my mom and grandma so they did their best to take care of me. I was bedridden all day Monday and couldn’t hold my food down. My grandma Jean had just come back from Seattle so all of us were recovering from Holiday travel plans. Grandma got a cold of her own, but fortunately she was spared from getting what I had.
It’s easy to get sick when traveling. I need to figure out how to better prepare my immune system, especially when I’m traveling to other countries.
