Governator strikes again!

Traffic was heavy this afternoon for my drive home on the inbound Edens. Why? Because Arnold was back in town, and someone chose the middle of rush hour to have his motorcade drive the expressway, blocking all southbound lanes. Damn you, Arnold! Damn your black heart!

I can suggest an alternate route for him that would be less disruptive to us little folk, should he again find himself needing to travel from the North Shore suburbs into the city.

He might start in Libertyville, where Marlon Brando grew up. A few miles east on Route 60 will take him to Lake Forest, present home of John Cleese (although I have my doubts as to whether Monty Python is his kind of humor). Rte 60 ends at Rte 41. After a jog south on Rte 41 and east again on Westleigh, he comes to Green Bay Road, which he can take south to Highland Park. The stretch of Green Bay that runs from here south to Winnetka was used in the movie Risky Business. It passes through Glencoe, home to Ghostbuster Harold Ramis.

At Tower Road, Gov. Schwarzenegger would want to head east to Sheridan Road, and then continue south on Sheridan. He'd soon arrive in Wilmette, birthplace of another Ghostbuster: Bill Murray.

The next town south of Wilmette is Evanston, where both Charlton Heston and John Cusack were born. Through Evanston, Sheridan is, oddly enough, discontinuous in several places. But it does at last lead to Chicago. And if Arnold can get past the gridlock that starts at Touhy, he just might make it downtown before nightfall.