I was up early and got out in the 20º morning and got the drone up in the air for a short time just to get some footage of the area. I will include it at the end of this post. After packing the car one last time and saying our final goodbyes to Ed and Nancy, we hit the road for the final leg home. One last stop for gas, $2.13 in Pennsylvania, and we let the calm voice of the
New Jersey
GPS guide us northward and soon we were leaving PA and entering New Jersey and the Jersey Turnpike. Being a Saturday morning traffic was light, well as light as New Jersey traffic can
New York City from New Jersey
be I guess. A couple of stops to accommodate biology and soon New York City came into view. And soon we were approaching the George Washington Bridge and were thankful that we had our EZPass in the windshield. We used to have to endure long lines to pay the toll but this time we zipped through
Across the Washington Bridge
without even stopping. With only a 5 minute tie-up near Co-Op City we effortlessly moved through the city and through the last toll in New Rochelle and on into Connecticut. No trip from New York (for us anyway) seems complete without a stop at Stew Leonards on East Norwalk (exit 16). Stew Leonards is an amazing grocery store the has made it's way into Ripley's Believe It or Not for being the largest 'dairy
Carol & Clover at Stew's
store' in the world, but it is so much more than that, it is an experience, and of course we needed a few thing for the upcoming Super Bowl, so we were almost obligated to stop. The store is filled with animated characters and characters walking around in costume...and it is a one way store, not aisles, just one continuous path through the store, so you get to see everything. And we did see everything. On the road once again and only two hours and a half hours to home. As we crossed the border and into Rhode Island we started seeing signs that said Go Pats, yep we
GO PATS!!
are solidly back into Patriots country and the Rhode Island DOT put up safety signs saying GO PATS DRIVE SOBER SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. And as it turned out, it was the greatest Super Bowl game in history. Gotta love the Patriots. We pulled into the drive at just about six in the evening and the unpacking began. As I write this we have been home a few days and getting caught up on things, lots of mail and more grocery shopping, washing the car (inside and out) and just hanging out with family..hugs from the kids are the best. . . So this concludes this journey but there will likely be random posts here and there and of course once we hit the road again I will update.
Some Statistics from this trip.
Miles Traveled: 3670
Gas: $165.43
Lodging $1221.87
Restaurants & Bars: $784
Groceries: $308
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