29 November 2015

Left Virginia at 5:15 in order to get ahead of the post-Thanksgiving traffic.  Succeeded, but did encounter the remains of an obviously fatal accident on I-287 in Morristown, NJ which, amazingly, only held up the journey by a couple of minutes.  Arrived at Fern Lake 9 hours after leaving Springfield, which included a stop for fresh produce (and ice cream, of course) in Brandon. Unloaded the truck into Kate’s house, which was quite chilly, at least for those of us acclimated to mid-Atlantic temperatures… her thermostats were set to 45°!  Took most of the night to warm the structural thermal mass using the propane stove in the living room, even after closing the doors to all the rooms I won’t be using (i.e., the other four bedrooms, Kate’s bathroom, and the study).