15 May 2012

Left Burlington at sunrise, except that it was raining all the way to Philadelphia so I can’t verify that the sun rose on time.  Made it back to Springfield in a few minutes over nine hours… not too shabby considering that trip was 40 miles longer than “normal”.  Left Vermont via the Chimney Point Bridge, a route that I had never traveled before, but which seems to have cut at least 15 minutes off the travel time.  Google Maps says the trip “should” have taken 10 hours and 10 minutes.  Consumed 1600 milligrams of Ibuprophen en route and still was pretty uncomfortable for most of the day… damn sciatica… but that explains the extraordinarily quick time.