greetings from Grand Rapids

I arrived in GR last night and am going to hang out with Ellie for a few days before heading off to Strings in Toronto.

Yesterday's drive was unexciting. Iowa's rolling green hills gave way to sad, flat fields in Illinois and Indiana. Michigan is also flat but, at least, wooded. Yesterday was a full day of NPR (I heard the Olympics story about ten times). As much as I love driving, I'm glad to be done with it for a little while. And it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful to see Ellie again.