Well, it turned out I was a little too hopeful. Mom and Dad drove as hard as they could, but the day kept getting longer and the traffic kept getting worse.
When we hit Newark New Jersey I looked out the window and it was crazy! We were driving on a 4 or 5 lane highway with 4 or 5 lanes on the other side, and right next to us was ANOTHER 8 or 10 lane double highway. By now I was just hoping the woman in the GPS would somehow get us through it ... but she did.
We went over the George Washington Bridge which was really cool, and my dad was saying it was one of the coolest bridges in the world and he'd loved it since he was a little kid. Then there was more traffic craziness but the GPS woman got us through it again and we were heading up into Connecticut on the Hutchinson and then the Merrit Parkways. My dad was saying that things got more mellow there.
Meantime the GPS was showing us getting home at 1:30 a.m. which none of us was looking forward to, believe me, between the cats getting excited and having to unpack the car. Then people started getting REALLY crazy on the parkway, including one time when we were doing 60 and a guy passed us at 75 on the left at the same time as a guy passed us about 90 on the right in the BREAKDOWN LANE!!! and Mom says to Dad I'm scared and tired, I want to stop, and much to our surprise he says yes.
So we ended up staying in a very nice Quality Motel just north of Hartford, getting to bed by 12:00 and I let everybody sleep until 7:00.
Today we woke up feeling good, a cool morning but the skies very clear, and got to our home at about 10:30. Actually I was a little surprised, because I had kind of thought that maybe this car/motel business was going to be my life ... but I was very happy and excited! and ran around a lot, and the cats ran around a lot.
When Mom and Dad opened the car, it almost exploded. Dad added it all up, and in 12 days we drove 6016 miles.
Later we went up to Meredith, NH to Grandpa and Grandma's where we were all glad to see each other, and they had a big Easter dinner and I ate what I could find.
Good to be back!
This ends my "Sundance Goes to Sundance" blog and thank you all for reading it! I've enjoyed being a blogging dog, and plan to do it again sometime soon.
Love,
Sundance and the Two Banditos
1 comment:
I very much enjoyed your blog, Sundance, which I've read from start to finish. Perhaps some day we'll all take a convoy road trip in a couple of cars, and see even more of the country that way!
Yer older brother (of a different species),
-Hondo.
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