We departed Sunday around 11 am, we had hopes to leave much earlier, but alas this did not happen, and never does. I had high hopes at the beginning of the day that we would make it all the way to Pennsylvania, but quickly realized that this was not going to happen. We stopped for lunch in Portland, even getting food "to go" we still took an hour stopping. This trip is very familiar to us, as we have driven many times to visit the Piersons in CT and on down to my family in PA. The hour of 5 pm came upon us quickly, and we were very close to the Hartford area. We surprised James's Aunt Nancy with a phone call and shortly there after arriving in her driveway to set up our traveling camp for the night. Thanks Nancy!
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| Guppy reading to the kids |
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| Walk along the River with Skip |
The next morning we were on our way, again not really getting on the highway until about 11. A short time later, before getting out of CT Parula started puking in the car. She got to about 6 vomits before we arrived at my mom's house in PA (poor drained little girl!). She was wiped, and we had a dinner of miso soup and seeing Guppy (my mom) really got her spirits up and she was back to her happy self the next day. We got to go on a nice walk with my dad, Skip, on Tuesday along the Schuykhill (skOO-kul) River and have spent some great time with my family, including a trip to the "Please Touch" museum today with my sister and my
niece, Paige.
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| Carousel at the Please Touch Museum with Katie and Paige |
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| Nickel, age 20 |
It was also very nice to see the Nickel, the cat that is now my mom's, but she was originally my 10th birthday present. So now she is almost 20 years old, and just a figment of what she once was, all fur and bones, and this is probably the last time I will get to see her. It was a very sweet thing to spend time with her! She sought James out every night for a special Reiki session from his healing hands....the animals definitely know who to go to!
Tomorrow we will embark on the next stage of our adventure, into the realm of the unknown. We don't have any family or friends to stay with south of here, and only places to discover. Sorrel expressed his dislike of sitting in the van all day on day two, so it shall be interesting to see how this goes. Perhaps we will need to travel a day, explore the next, then travel some more. I'm sure we'll figure out a groove to make this work for us all. One thing that I do know is that I'm ready to see the ground! It snowed the first two days of the trip so far, both in CT and in PA, and we left Maine to a knee-high of snow still in the ground. I am ready for some ground!
So off to bed and on south, maybe Virginia will be our next stop, we shall see!
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