On the road again! The trip back to California, part 1
That's a wrap! Welllllllll...not quite the California we have in mind... We said goodbye to nearly a full house of guests at the bed and breakfast yesterday morning and by 11:30 AM, Chris, Sydney and I were on the road to California. Swarm of starlings in Carlisle, PA A Pantera on the Long Island Expressway! #70sflashback The first day's drive west is always the most stressful as it encompasses the maniacal Long Island Expressway (driving experience apparently optional, merge expertise nonexistent), Belt Parkway traffic and I-95 through New Jersey (self-explanatory to anyone who has ever driven it). I think my blood pressure finally started to drop when we hit the Penna Pike, I-76 West. Forget the bed. I like being smashed into this tiny space. Sydney eschews her comfy bed in the back of the Outback in favor of wedging herself into the space between my yoga bag and the retractable screen, and sleeps without so much as putting her head up until