Tollway thoughts

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We drove from Milwaukee Wisconsin to Joliet Illinois and back yesterday. So I thought of a few Illinois tollway related things. One is the Captain Tollway character. That would be one of the more pathetic super heroes out there. His super power, I guess, is the ability to tell you if there is traffic congestion on the tollway in Chicago. Answer: Yes. Simple answers to simple questions.

Also, they have eliminated the paper towerstowels in the Oasis restrooms and installed some high-powered hot-air hand driers. The really powerful, really loud kind. Really loud. They do indeed dry your hands quickly. Similarly, and only slightly more noisily, the exhaust of a KC-10's auxiliary power unit will also dry you off. (This photo is from a hot day, but when it's cold and rainy it's actually a surprisingly comfortable warm place to stand if you don't mind the shrieking roaring gas turbine noise and the jet exhaust smell.)