17 September 2015

Got up at 4 (gack!) and was on the road with the dogs by 5:15.  Was so foggy that I drove out of the spot where the Tacoma was parked and immediately got lost in the middle of Steve’s field.  Eventually found the road, went a ½ mile and realized my lunch was still in Delores’ refrigerator.  Got underway a second time at 5:30, found the road first try this time, and then crept down to Montpelier in pea soup fog.  Was in and out of the fog all the way to Springfield… Massachusetts (200 miles).  Found a (too typical… oh, how I hate the DC-area traffic!) parking lot on I-695 in Washington which meant that the last 20 miles of the 610 mile trip took an hour and a half, which pushed the total trip time (with two stops) out to 11½ bun-numbing hours.  The dogs were very happy to get out of the truck when we arrived!  Chree pulled in 45 minutes later (she ran into stop and go traffic on the Baltimore Washington Parkway that I must have been just ahead of, but avoided I-695 ‘cause I called her in time. We finished the last of our Virginia JW Double Black.  Unfortunately, the bottle was mostly empty already…