Home Again

We're back in New Jersey after an uneventful drive. We spent last night at a very nice Fairfield Inn in Elkin, NC. We took a different route home than we took to FL and liked it much better. We drove to Florida on I-95, but more-so than we intended. We had planned to take Rt 301 through Delaware and Maryland and intersect I-95 north of Richmond. But the bridge on 301 was out and we ended up headed for Washington on Rt 50 instead. So we definitely decided to take the alternate route home. We took routes 26, 77, 81 to the PA turnpike and then home and it was very nice. The only problem we encountered was on the NJ turnpike. Figures, right. It was so congested we got off at exit 7 and found our way to I-195.

We really enjoyed our trip. The driving wasn't too painful, especially with books-on-tape to listen to. Though we figure we would not want more than 2 consecutive days of driving, so a cross-country trip is definitely not in our future. It was really great to have high-speed internet everywhere. I have so little time to work on genealogy and the connectivity allowed me to alternate that with our outdoor activities.

Now that we are home, our internet connection is not working, so on top of all the chores awaiting us, we have to trouble-shoot that. What a bummer. Right now I'm connected via "free" wi-fi being provided by an unsuspecting neighbor. Folks really should be more careful.