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May 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Schrödinger’s Kitten watches Duck wing it to California

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

Schrödinger’s Kitten casually observes Time Travelling Duck as the travel plan to California is mostly just wing-it and randomly zen and chill and drive while listening to a kaleidescope of FM radio stations.

Should eventually bump into Quantum Bunny Rabbit and Electric Cow, maybe when I fill up with Liquefied Natural Electricity at the Cow Refinery.

LinkedIn still won’t let me post images, so guess I’ll just have to write creative visual ideas.
Hence my intro above, for regular longtime readers.

Today I started my drive from Michigan to Central California.
It will probably take around 4 days or so.

Just following GPS directions.
No particular plans for the drive, except to arrive in California prolly by end of this weekend.

Didn’t book any hotels, I’ll just find a random hotel each day when I’m about done driving for the day.

Kinda nice *not* having a well thought out and preplanned agenda.

Adventuring ! 😁

A break from my usual obsessive organization and planning and anayzing risks and coming up with contingencies and alternatives for if / when assorted things go sideways.

The general gist is to drive mostly West and a bit South.

Currently on Route 80 West, in Iowa.

Listening to random radio stations which are constantly changing and fading in & out as the drive West progresses.

The states driving in / through so far today are
———————->
Michigan,
Indiana,
Illinois,
Iowa,
< not sure which state I will eventually stop in today for overnighting >
———————->

/ edit – staying at the Hilton tonight in Omaha Nebraska.

FROM THE THREAD

Tom's notes 7

  1. Tom Kirkman

    Thanks Dean Field. It's a beautiful day for a long drive.
    Clear blue skies, sunny, and currently 72 degrees F 😃

  2. Tom Kirkmanreplying to David J Bassler

    nope, sober as a judge.
    Just re-introducing some of my longtime anthropomorphic characters and silly surreal science topics.

    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7149483907187417088/

  3. Tom Kirkman

    Cliff Saunders thanks. Getting ready to check out of Omaha Hilton hotel, and a quick Grok search advises 630 miles further West on route 80 is another Hilton hotel in Rawlins Wyoming, so I booked a room for tonight.

    I was trying so hard to not book anything in advance and just drive and relax and find a random upscale hotel along the way each day. But my obsessive organizational mindset told me to book a hotel at 6 AM this morning, for tonight.

  4. Tom Kirkman

    This curious little guy came within a foot of me just now, at a rest stop in Utah.

  5. Tom Kirkman

    At a rest stop in Utah.
    That's my white pickup truck in the front.
    Nice orange rock cliffs in the background.

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