Day three the long haul

Day 3

Wow what a day!! Over 700km and over 15 hours of driving. All to be stood up by a breeder. Oh well, we did get to see New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Oh and we were on the look out for a loose baboon spotted on the hwy we were on just outside of NYC, sadly we didn't get a glimpse.

The day started well enough. Took us longer to pack up then planned. Then we drove out to MA, very pretty with hills all covered in forest. We get to where we are supposed to meet... eeeeh no breeder. Dang. So then we head to Clean Run to visit their actual store and pick up some things. I have wanted an aluminet shade cloth tarp thing for years now. With shipping its never seemed worth it, but since I was in the area...

Then down to push through to our camp site. The drive was much longer than the GPS said. There was a lot of construction and lowered speed limits. Traffic through NYC wasn't bad, no where near Toronto bad and we were going through there just after 6pm.

New Jersey had the most expensive toll road to end all toll roads. Just over 23 dollars!! The worst part was we sat there for 45 minutes (no exaggeration, we noted the time) to go through the toll so we could pay. People here honk a lot. Then to add insult to injury it cost 6 dollars to cross the bridge out of Jersey. My little car and trailer did not do 6 dollars worth of wear and tear on that bridge.

Even with out this delay we were running late. Laura called the camp grounds on my cell phone to tell them we were still coming. Happily there is a self check in option if you come in late.

We arrived at about 12:30pm There were more deer strolling around than I have seen in my life. They aren't the least bit afraid of the car and just stood there staring at us wondering what our problem was. We also saw 2 baby foxes cross the camp road as we came in.

So tired, we just tossed up the tent. No fly, no nothing. We did pump up the air matresses which sounded like aircraft in the very very still and silent night. MD has no cricket or frog sounds, I have never heard such a silent night in the summer. After having been on the road since 6:40 am we just fell into bed and slept. Tomorrow we are to hit a race meet and get some 'whippet spit' as my mom says.