Saturday 3/16/24
While the hotel had a small 24 hour gym and had an included breakfast we skipped both today. We just showered, got dressed, and ready to go.
We had some trouble with the shower in the handicapped room. We got the floor soaked. There was a curtain but no raised part so the water just went all over the floor. Scott did better with the shower than I did. Luckily, there were extra towels.
We left about 6am to finish the ride home.
We were in Maryland at 7.
Somehow we missed one of the road splits where we were supposed to stay on I95. The car told us which way to go, but we went the wrong way. We didn’t realize we went the wrong way at first but when the car kept saying make a legal U turn over and over, and we saw the distance to home increasing rather than decreasing we realized we were going the wrong way. Of course we’re laughing at ourselves since we have the navigation in the car on and we have the trip tik but we still messed up. We must have been very involved in whatever we were talking about or singing. Luckily, we only wasted maybe 20 minutes with this little detour.
We were in Delaware at 9:25
We were in New Jersey at 9:45. Similar to how we feel when we get to Florida on the drive down, we’re in the state but still have a while to go. The ride through Florida going down and the ride through New Jersey going home both seem to take so long. We live near the top of New Jersey so know we have almost 3 hours to drive before we’re home.
We stopped at a rest stop once we were in New Jersey for Starbucks breakfast sandwiches and beverages.
Before we got home we stopped at Stop & Shop (a grocery store) for a few items.
We were home about 12:45. It was nice to get home so early in the day so we were glad we drove into Virginia yesterday making today a shorter travel day.
The cats were very happy to see us. We started some of the post vacation chores like unpacking, going through mail, a little more laundry, etc. Of course we spent a lot of time playing with the cats.
That night we ordered a Chicken Parmigiana hero from a local pizza place to share and had it delivered. I forgot to take a picture but it was very good. It was nice to have a relaxing evening at home with our delivered dinner and hanging out with the cats.