Round the West - Day 39 & 40 & 41

Day 39 - We headed to my brother R.'s house in Kentucky and made it there in time to watch a few shows with them before heading off to dinner with the family. My niece talked my ear off the whole time *L* After a good meal, I spent the evening reading Naruto fic, or rather, rereading, since there's nothing new and good since the last time I checked. I went to sleep around 11pm their time and slept until around 4am.

Day 40 - I dozed for awhile in the morning but even though I was very tired, I couldn't get back to sleep before everyone got up and headed off to school. Once everyone was off, and Dad and my brother went off to do other important things, I crashed in my nephew's bunk bed for an hour or so. That revived me immensely, and I was awake enough for our excellent lunch (I had a hamburger for the first time in years...) From there, we said goodbye and headed off towards Cincinnati. There, we arrived fairly late due to the time change, and chatted with my cousin, D. until we went off to eat at an Italian place I've forgotten the name of. D. keeps a great house, so I was able to get a lot of sleep.

Day 41 - I was up around 9 and surprised to see my Dad still sleeping. We had to make our final run into New Jersey today so I expected him up a bit earlier. I took a shower and found out he'd been thinking we were still on central time, so we caffeinated up and headed out. We stopped for brunch at a Cracker Barrel outside Columbus. The food was great, but I wish they'd stop lighting wood fires in there at all hours in cold weather. Sure, it's nice, but I end up having to go for my inhaler due to the smoke.

I tried to drive after brunch but my usual afternoon lethargy caught up with me despite the high amount of sleep; I took a nap through the rest of Ohio. Once we hit Pennsylvania, it was strange to see proper autumn leaves lining the sides of the road. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them and they're all the more striking when you don't see them turning. The Penn. turnpike, otherwise known as one of my favourite roads to drive, simply because it's where I learnt to drive (through hail, and fog and rain...), was the driest I've ever seen it. I'm used to driving it through fog and rain during the summer, but we had blue skies and fall leaves which made it quite pretty, even if we are hitting the end of autumn at this point and some trees were bare. I took over driving about half way through, and we'd both forgotten how desolate the last part of Penn. before NJ is since we ended up driving for an extra half hour before settling on Long John Silver's to eat.

From there, it was a surprisingly short drive of about 2 1/2 hours to get home, which put us in at around 10:30pm. We unpacked the barest of necessities, threw a load of wash in the machine, and settled in to watch Eureka and relax. The GPU in my computer had been on the fritz for the past couple of days and it finally gave up the ghost when we reached home, refusing to show anything other than vertical rainbow lines which faded to white or black. Hence, the lack of updates.

It's good to be home and sleep in my own bed. I missed my slippers.

Round the West - Day 39 & 40 & 41

Day 39 - We headed to my brother R.'s house in Kentucky and made it there in time to watch a few shows with them before heading off to dinner with the family. My niece talked my ear off the whole time *L* After a good meal, I spent the evening reading Naruto fic, or rather, rereading, since there's nothing new and good since the last time I checked. I went to sleep around 11pm their time and slept until around 4am.

Day 40 - I dozed for awhile in the morning but even though I was very tired, I couldn't get back to sleep before everyone got up and headed off to school. Once everyone was off, and Dad and my brother went off to do other important things, I crashed in my nephew's bunk bed for an hour or so. That revived me immensely, and I was awake enough for our excellent lunch (I had a hamburger for the first time in years...) From there, we said goodbye and headed off towards Cincinnati. There, we arrived fairly late due to the time change, and chatted with my cousin, D. until we went off to eat at an Italian place I've forgotten the name of. D. keeps a great house, so I was able to get a lot of sleep.

Day 41 - I was up around 9 and surprised to see my Dad still sleeping. We had to make our final run into New Jersey today so I expected him up a bit earlier. I took a shower and found out he'd been thinking we were still on central time, so we caffeinated up and headed out. We stopped for brunch at a Cracker Barrel outside Columbus. The food was great, but I wish they'd stop lighting wood fires in there at all hours in cold weather. Sure, it's nice, but I end up having to go for my inhaler due to the smoke.

I tried to drive after brunch but my usual afternoon lethargy caught up with me despite the high amount of sleep; I took a nap through the rest of Ohio. Once we hit Pennsylvania, it was strange to see proper autumn leaves lining the sides of the road. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them and they're all the more striking when you don't see them turning. The Penn. turnpike, otherwise known as one of my favourite roads to drive, simply because it's where I learnt to drive (through hail, and fog and rain...), was the driest I've ever seen it. I'm used to driving it through fog and rain during the summer, but we had blue skies and fall leaves which made it quite pretty, even if we are hitting the end of autumn at this point and some trees were bare. I took over driving about half way through, and we'd both forgotten how desolate the last part of Penn. before NJ is since we ended up driving for an extra half hour before settling on Long John Silver's to eat.

From there, it was a surprisingly short drive of about 2 1/2 hours to get home, which put us in at around 10:30pm. We unpacked the barest of necessities, threw a load of wash in the machine, and settled in to watch Eureka and relax. The GPU in my computer had been on the fritz for the past couple of days and it finally gave up the ghost when we reached home, refusing to show anything other than vertical rainbow lines which faded to white or black. Hence, the lack of updates.

It's good to be home and sleep in my own bed. I missed my slippers.