This is the latest entry in our new longform series, First and Long, which will debut the first of every month and explore stories off the beaten path.I was stopped — tentatively and precariously, with one foot on the brake pedal and the other pressed onto the gas to give the car enough juice to keep it from stalling again, which would be the third time in the last half-mile, as the muffler belched out its relentless guttural rattling and the RPM needle plunged to a hair-length’s prayer above zero, quivering between sort-of life and soon-to-be death.I was stopped, for the moment on purpose, with a decision to make.Faced with a pair of nearly identical blue I-94 signs, I could go left, east to Milwaukee, and try to drive this enfeebled and eroding automobile to the temporary sanctuary of a mechanic’s garage. Or, I could go right, west toward Madison, where my assignment lay, daring the power to cut out, which could send me into a horrible, flaming wreck — or worse, stranded in the boonies, unable to report my story, which is actually not about the travails of an old Toyota with two-hundred-and-plenty thousand miles on it.It’s a story… Read full this story
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