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Fools%u2019 Journey26empty of people. We found ourselves gravitating to the less-commercial areas, and the older, local highways, where we found restaurants offering %u2018dillo stew (which we decided not to try), and Johnny Weissmuller%u2019s Jungle Land. It must have been a showplace back when Johnny was a popular movie Tarzan, but the place we visited was badly in need of paint, repair, mowing, and general maintenance %u2014 none of which could be justified with the pitiful number of tourists it was able to draw. The animals must have been underfed because a roving goat snatched Lynn%u2019s paper program and ate it. We were let down only once by a mom-and-pop motel %u2014 on our way home, near Savanna, Georgia. The main road had been under construction for miles, and the traffic barely crawled along a detour. As it got later, darker, and hungrier, we realized we had no idea where we were, and it was starting to rain. We%u2019d been watching for a motel since 5:00, and finally spotted a flickering, red vacancy sign at 8:00. It wasn%u2019t exactly squalid, but it was close. While I didn%u2019t ask, the rooms were probably available by the hour. In the morning, we were covered with small red bites %u2014 fleas. From the Atlantic coast, we angled our way through North Carolina, then toward Indiana. %u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022A week after returning to Kendallville, I picked up the flu. When I went to the doctor, he just suggested I stay home from school for a couple of days. He had the strangest medical office I%u2019d ever seen. It was decorated with so many stuffed animal trophies it looked like a taxidermist%u2019s shop. Hunting animals for sport seemed an odd hobby for someone dedicated to healing, and it made me wonder what went on within his subconscious mind.By the time I returned to school, Lynn was frazzled because she%u2019d been handling all my classes, as well as her own. Then she got the flu, and I took over both sets of classes. Then I got the flu again. Then Lynn. By the end of January, we%u2019d used up all our sick days, and then some. But we weren%u2019t always sick. We just needed to be away from the hyperactivity and frantic pace of school. Although we