National Road Trip - Merrillville, IN

Our day started out very nicely from a warm cozy apartment, courtesy of Janice Buist. We have both known Janice since sometime in 1998. We've kept in touch over the years and were very lucky to have had the fortune of crashing on her futon and air mattress while the rest of the world worked.

As you may have seen from the 'Shout Out' post, Eric and I spent a little time at Tom and Ed's Autobody then back to Janice's to fix a speaker in Eric's door.


Janice got home from work and after hanging out a bit and catching up, we headed out for dinner. Our first stop was Red Lobster, but after realizing how costly it was, we left and went to Red Robin.

There we spent the next hour and a half, or so, continuing to catch up. We had a great time. Thank you Janice! It was very nice to see you and hang out for a bit.

Now we're back on the road. The plan is to drive straight through to Boise. Google maps says it'll take "about a day".

Should be fun.

National Road Trip - Shout Out

This is a special road trip shout out to Tom and Ed's Autobody shop.


We took Eric's little matchbox car to Tom and Ed's to see if they could help us not blind every Semi Truck we pass, this preventing the National Truck Driving Association putting a hit out on us.

And, they did. They knew exactly what needed to be done and didn't charge. They were some pretty stand up guys and knew their stuff.

www.tomandedsautobody.com

National Road Trip - First Leg

Boston, MA to Merrillville, IN.


Not a bad first leg. That is if I don't mention the blizzards (yes, plural), Eric's headlights that were installed wrong so they blinded every trucker we passed causing some of them to swerve at us, and 16 hours in a car catching up on my Hip Hop/R&B/Rap/Dance/Electronica music (sarcasm). Really though, it wasn't too bad.

The coolest/scariest thing was the snow being pushed at ridiculous speeds. Normally, from my experience, when you drive in snow, the snow tends to fall as if it's coming right at you. There is something both frightening and majestic about snow that blows sideways while driving 70mph at midnight.

Here's a list of states and times we entered them (EST):
05:51pm - New York
11:45pm - Pennsylvania
12:50am - Ohio
04:36am - Indiana

We switched driving a few times and after 14.5 hours, we pulled into Janice's house at 6:15pm CST. We were greeted by a almost-ready-for-work Janice and two pre-made beds.

Then as then as the sun started to make it's way over the horizon, it was time for bed.

Now, real quick, I have one thing I need to point out. At dinner, Eric spilled his soda, forcing this old lady to clean it up. Now, I only bring this up because he's been telling his friends that I'm the one who did it. Tsk tsk tsk...




...Hi Liz. :)