My work life will basically be about helping people overcome bad habits like smoking and overeating and then helping people laugh when I do shows. How can a career get better than that? It is everything that I can ask for in life.
I'll be on the road, perhaps for weeks at a time, at first. I love being on the road. I love the USA and seeing as much of it as possible.
It is not without potential difficulties. I have a very special girl friend whom I will see less and I have a dog which I will miss whenever I am gone.
Fortunately my girl friend is someone who is very supportive, unlike the last one I had, and I can probably bring my dog on the road with me. Obviously, the girl friend can come also, when she can.
So I am on the road right now, currently in Minnesota. I drove out here over the course of two day covering 1241 miles from point to point.
I have never been in Wisconsin or Minnesota, the former through which I had to pass along the way.
Traveling some of these roads, as you probably know, can be very tiresome since there are miles and miles of flatness and currently dead corn fields.
Driving along the Pennsylvania turnpike is fine for a few miles as it passes through a mountain range. Then it levels out again. There are signs for Pittsburgh and some hope that a glimpse of a building can be seen.
After not seeing anything there its in to Ohio and hopes get high that the Cleveland skyline will come into view.
Nothing.
Then more nothing.
Indiana is the next stop as the route traveled was I-80. More dead corn.
Finally, finally, finally, off on the horizon, and about 30 miles away on a clear day, the Chicago skyline starts to appear. I have never been in Chicago either so I woke up from my nap to take in the sights and sit in Sunday afternoon traffic.
Wisconsin, the big cheese state, was the next state and I was sort of dreading seeing cows for 200 miles. But I started seeing billboards advertising all sorts of things in a town called Wisconsin Dells. The town name barely shows up on the atlas which I had with me. But since I was at the end of a day in which I drove over 900 miles I thought I would stop there.
I was pleasantly surprised by what I found there. Although it was basically a ghost town since its a vacation destination, hence the small print on the map, there are all sorts of things to see and do there. Camp sites, waterparks, amusements parks, a zip line, an interactive science center, a paintball arena, laser tag, two theaters with resident magicians, miniature golf, a water skiing show, etc., etc. The main street of the town had just about anything you could imagine also and in case the thought ran through your mind (you dirty boys and girls) signs pointed to about a mile off the main street for a "gentlemen's" club.
While there I went to see one of the magicians/illusionists who had a show that evening. Since this town doesn't really revive each year until May, there weren't a lot of people in attendance, so I was basically in the front row. The guy I saw was Jeremy Allen www.jeremyallensgrandillusions.com and I had a good time watching him and his hot girls perform for an hour.
The weather report called for cold and snow for Minnesota and as I hit the road from Wisconsin the following morning it indeed was cold and snowy.
Speeds were reduced although it was clear that the drivers from this area are much better at driving in the snow than they are in Delaware which basically has to call out the National Guard as soon as a forecast for snow flurries is made.
St. Paul and Minneapolis are seen as soon as you cross the border on Routes I-90 and I-94 but I couldn't see much of it since visibility was poor and I had to concentrate on driving.
Once through there it was back to nothingness. The temperature dropped below 20 and the wind picked up in a fierce way. My trip took me off the Interstate, which was closed for about 150 miles west of where I had to get off.
The road that I traveled from the Interstate was a two-way road and for some of it I was driving in white-out conditions.
I have these very stereotypical images in my head of places where I have never been. In my mind when I thought about Minnesota I imagined that it was flat, cold, and full of snow.
I was right on the money.
For a couple of days I'll be training for the new opportunity in Willmar, MN. Um...not too much here
I did find a picture of where I am staying....and I live large when I am on the road!
When my training is complete and the schedule of where I will be is made (usually at least 3-4 weeks in advance) I'll post it along with my show schedule at www.marshalmanlove.com. If I am in your and you would like to come for a session or even take the opportunity to get trained to become a hypnotist, just reach out to me at dehypno@verizon.net
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