Thursday, August 4, 2011

Catching up, and an ending

Wednesday, 10:28 PM EST:

Listening to the radio, all we seem to get is Glen Beck, and some dude named "Savage" who see conspiracies where the rest of us only see democrats. I just don't get it.

Making good time - at this point, we're about 45 minutes west of Erie PA, about 20 minutes west of the PA boundry. Figure that we'll get to the NY state line by about 12:30 or so, if we're lucky.

All in all, it's been a smooth morning - fairly light traffic, and the one 'rush hour' we've gone through - Cleveland - was prettymuch uneventful.

RIght now, though, the road is rough. Single lane, lousy condition road, and slow going. Our nice happy itenerary and scheudle might eget blown to heck. Who knows.

More, when there's more to be had...

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Thursday, 7:55 AM EST:

Well, we're home. Catching you up from yesterday:

The road home was long, but thankfully uneventful. I drove most of the way home - 11:30 or so on until we got to Shelburne around 8:30 PM. The NY Throughway was fine, not even any real congestion around the Albany area. The truck complained once we got into the Berkshires, since it had been pampered with relatively flat roads the entire trip.

Route 90, to route 7, to Route 9, to 8A (Dad wanted to go that way), and Route 2 to home. As we turned into the lower driveway at pop's house, he said "that's the most enjoyable turn of the trip." I had to agree.

For the whole trip, I'd like to say it was an adventure, but it really was so uneventful as to be almost boring. It was a lot of driving in a short amount of time, and what little sightseeing we did was from the window of the truck along the interstate.

Uneventful is good, though - we got home uninjured, the mill made the trip without damage or incident, and the truck performed flawlessly. And, most importantly, dad and I enjoyed each other's company the whole way.

So, I'm home. The day is shaping up to be a nice sunny day, not too warm, but comfortable. Looking for coffee, and going to get a start to the day.

Thanks for following this log. Until next time...