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Saturday, October 18, 2008, at a gas station somewhere in New York
I got up early and went to the store to buy breakfast food before everyone got up, then made breakfast: eggs, bacon, cereal and yogurt. We all ate and enjoyed; then we had to say our goodbyes. Such a nice family. We headed first to the U-Haul dealership to rent a trailer. We got a nine footer to fit the tandem. Everything fit well, not too overcrowded. Then we went to the Portland Headlight, the famous lighthouse. Then we found a place downtown that sold Maine Lobster and bought two, plus two clam chowders and shared them. Expensive, but good. We had to try Maine Lobster before we could leave. Well, now we could officially leave. So we went to get our trailer and said goodbye to Gwyneth and the kids and drove off to begin our return to California. We planned to stop at Niagra Falls in New York, The Allen's house in Indiana, The Reynolds house in Colorado, and The Grand Canyon in Arizona before arriving at the Locsin's house in Morgan Hill, California, where we would be staying until we got a place of our own. Before we could go, we had to eat, since the Lobster dinner didn't fill us up, so we went to Wendy's and filled up on the usual, hamburgers, french fries, and coke, not exactly the food of champions, or is it? The toll roads in New York were expensive. We spent over $30 just in tolls before we left the state. We listened to Karen Carpenter for miles. She's a great singer, but it was the only CD we had so it got a little old after awhile. The plan was to ride as far as possible every day then pull in to a place we could park the van for the night to sleep. We ended up driving until 2:30 am then we pulled in to a gas station to sleep.