1AM Pacific Time Wake-Up Call

La Quinta was gorgeous for us last night. New, clean, comfy and sound suppressed.

Yesterday was a long drive and we were really needing some pampering. We lucked out and were told we could park up front, rock star style.

This was great until 3AM local time when the front desk phoned asking for the truck to be moved as it was blocking a semi-driver’s escape route.

Little rest and we were in the road by 6AM today, which turned out to be a shorter than previous days. We did 8.5 hours today, landing at a small town off I90, between Cleveland and Erie, PA. This puts us at about 4.5 hours from our new home!

Today’s drive included more steep drives, ridiculous bad roads through Indiana, and mostly better roads as we crossed into Ohio. While driving through Indianapolis and Columbus required attention to the details, Columbus was quite easy for us. Our goal today, get to our next stop safely.

We are appreciating the green fields, hills, forests and river crossings. Today it really began to register. We have driven across the country already, and we are not in the desert anymore. We are actually, in this moment, very close by to Lake Erie.

Key Learnings:

1. When super tired, probably not best to drive like we are. It’s harder to hold all of it in the lane and harder to negotiate crossing lanes, merges, etc.

2. Breaks are good. We took 4, I believe.

3. Road food really is awful for me. I’ll be feeling this for a couple of months.

4. Buc Eees is like an amusement park