We Have Arrived!
June 22, 2007 by mrschili
We’re here! And we still love each other!
We left the house at about 10:30, stopped on the Mass Turnpike before the turn off for I-84 to New York for a quick pee break, then were back on the road. We stopped at a McDonald’s in Waterbury, CT (yeah, yeah, I know, McDonald’s - it was fast and easy. Besides, Beanie still calls it “Chickie-Donald’s, and I love that), then we drove straight through and arrived in Bethel, PA at about six. I’m posting from a Comfort Inn with wireless internet (thank you, Mr. Chili!).
There’s really nothing out here - lots of green and fields and not much else. We’re trying to figure out where to go for dinner - we’re meeting up with BoBo and his family (who are at an amusement park in Hershey). Tomorrow, we’ll go to Hershey to do the chocolate tour thing, then we will probably drive to Maryland for Dudley’s party through Gettysburg (I went to Gettysburg years and years ago with Mr. Chili, but we didn’t take pictures. Go figure). We’ll stay near Dudley’s tomorrow night, then spend part of Sunday in D.C.
More later!
Ah, the open road.
I really have no tips for successful trips. I love being on the road, and to keep from being impatient or bored, I remind myself that the place where I am is as good as the place I’m going.
I drove through Gettysburg a couple of years ago. I’m not really big on battlefields, thinking that wholesale slaughter, however important history is, is not worth celebrating.
I now have a mental association with the state of Massachusetts and being blocked (poorly) from Internet porn. It’s a weird Pavlovian thing like how Al Franken’s voice makes me crave Burger King.