One Day Left

It has been a rough day today. It is nice to know that we have reached the end of the middle states and we are now in Eastern Time but still. We have finished our 6th day on the road and we are both starting to get a little testy with each other. We have not worked, cooked, cleaned, etc. in almost a week and all we have done is sit on our asses and eat fast food. I have eaten subway in 4 or 5 states now and I didn't like subway that much in the first place. We need to get back into the normal daily activities that, while we might not enjoy them, they are normal and thus will be appreciated at the end of this trip.

We have been cut off one to many times. Driven on narrow roads. Spent hours bouncing up and down in the truck because the roads are all torn up for maintenance work. Missed our TV shows. Gained weight from to much McDonald's and Subway. Oh, and we have slept on the most awful mattresses.

I forgot in my last post to tell you all about how I broke our cooler yesterday. I leaned on it (something I have been doing to days now) and I managed to put my elbow through the lid and I put large cracks down two of the corners. We couldn't find another cooler this morning so about 4 hours into today I decided to put band-aids on the cracks to minimize the squeaking coming from the cracks. This looks really funny but actually works quite well. Miles is really upset that I broke the cooler but I am hoping that will be forgotten in about 24 hours when we are finally within an hour of Hoboken.

Nothing terrible has happened today. Like I mentioned above we have been cut off multiple times. This usually results in Miles flipping someone the bird and cursing under his breath. For some reason people think that we can stop in 3 feet. We can't. The other big frustration is that for some reason people have been trying to merge onto a freeway with cars traveling at 65mph at the tremendous speed of 35mph. It is often difficult for us to change lanes so we end up slamming on the breaks while these slow pokes go from 30 to 60 in 60 sec.

One really nice thing about Ohio and also Indiana is that while they have tolls they also have plazas (think fancy rest stops) along the way so you don't have to get off the highway. These plazas are between 30 and 60 miles apart and have gas stations (with diesel) as well as food, restrooms, and trucker parking. They average about 3 food options from Starbucks to McDonald's, to TCBY and Panera. These have been great.

This is really all I can manage to remember from the day. Everything is starting to blur together.