We were kind of tired last night, so I waited until this morning to post yesterday’s photos of the MREA Fair. It was an exhilirating day, as Annie and I got to talk with many readers of BHM, but’s it’s easy to crash into your motel bed after an exciting day.

I’ll try to do several little side stories about the Fair during this weekend. There are all kinds of exhibits. A big “No show”, unfortunately, was the Toyota hybrid car display. The huge floods that have been in the headlines stranded the trains carrying the cars. I especially wanted to see the hybrid Camry.

Dust is a bit of a problem at the show, as this area features a fine dirt that kind of hangs in the air and settles on everything, including this laptop’s keyboard. You’ve got to wash yourself down pretty good at the end of the day. But it’s a very beautiful rural countryside with many small farms and mid-sized towns. Our motel is in Stevens Point, which the locals call Point.

For us, the show is all about meeting BHM readers, flesh-to-flesh handshakes, and letting each other know that we are real people on both the writing and reading side of this magazine enterprise. Here are yesterday’s BHM T-shirt wearers who got a free signed copy of my book, Can America Be Saved from Stupid People.