Day 1!
Day 1 has come and gone. We left Madison, CT at 11:15 with my mom to head to pick up our rental car, which is an epically awesome 2016 Dodge grand caravan, whom Alex quickly named Van Dodge. Three of us were excited, the dog was not. Some how that little creature knew she was being left at Grandma and Grandpa's house, where she will be loved, spoiled and competing with a cat for lap time.
We quickly ran into some awesome traffic in New Haven, which we then attempted to escape by taking the Merritt parkway. Unfortunately for us, we still crawled at various points. Oh well.
We eventually reached New York and Waze detoured us through Tarrytown, where I gave an impromptu lecture on Washington Irving and the headless horseman.
Strangely enough, we basically flew over the tappan zee bridge and into New Jersey. After a quick pitstop, we hopped on i80 and headed into Pennsylvania. The good news: no traffic at all and driving through the Poconos and farm country was beautiful. The bad: Pennsylvania is long! As dinner time approached, exits were sparse. We ended up in a tiny town called Loganton, population 436. Right off the highway is Dar's Diner, which seats about 15. This place was adorable and they were so fascinated by Alex's telling of our planned adventures. It was the type of place where if it wasn't in the menu but they had the ingredients, sure they could whip it up. Everyone knew each other (except us), it was rather like being in Cheers. Did I mention the awesome ice cream?
After dinner we drove drove drove to Ohio and stopped for the night in Hudson. The clarion hotel was basic, cheap enough and clean though. Apparently the free continental breakfast was eh, but whatever. Next stop, The university of Notre Dame.
Some tallies:
29 state license plates, plus Quebec and Ontario.
Horses in trailers, in fields, being ridden and one pulling an Amish family in a traditional buggy in Pennsylvania.
Cows in fields
Deer eating corn
Deer failing to cross the highway successfully. (10) 😞
Hundreds of silos.
Pictures to be added later.
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