Great American Road Trip: Day 1

Day one of The Great American Road Trip is now done!

Today’s schedule consisted of the following:

  • 6:30 am: Get up
  • 6:45 am: Pound down the caffeinated beverage of choice
  • 7:30 am: Go pick up Very Large Yellow Truck (VLYT in future updates)
  • 8:00 am: Movers arrive early!
  • 8:30 am: Arrive home with VLYT and discover loading zone is open
    (unusual)!
  • 8:30 am to 2:30 pm: Mad packing of final stuff by us and very
    organized wrapping and loading by the movers
  • 10:30 am: Monster TV departs to new home (somebody in a wheelchair got a surprise TV from his PCA yesterday)
  • 2:30 pm: Quick shower
  • 3:00 pm: Final lunch as Eastie residents at Santarpio’s. The staff were exceptionally grumpy – something we won’t miss about Boston.
  • 4:00 pm: VLYT is now on the road at the eastern end of I-90
  • 4:00 pm to 9:20 pm: Bouncing down the road in the VLYT, which appears to have a rev-limiter set to 70mph. Damn. Oh well – at least it’s Large and Yellow!
  • 9:20 pm: Arrive in East Syracuse, park VLYT, check in and crash.

Pictures from the day (all by Laura, who wasn’t piloting the VLYT)

Day Two Preview: We drive down I-90 to Elkhart, Indiana. Whee!