Day 37

Date: Tuesday August 11, 2015

Location at the beginning of the day: a rest area just inside the Pennsylvania border

Distance to drive: 400 miles to where we actually stopped

Hours to drive: 5 (but when we arrived at the ‘travel service area’ at 4:30 we decided to continue) In the end it was more like 7

Destination: a travel service stop on the Indiana Toll highway (it was supposed to be at mile marker 156, but instead we stayed at the final one at mile marker 22).

Planned activities: grocery shop and drive

Quote of the day: “Are we there yet?” For some reason today the little one really wanted to be somewhere, even if it was just the next travel plaza.

We started out the morning by grocery shopping in Erie Pennsylvania at Wegman’s.

We took the Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll highway today.  Both are toll highways, but they saved us many hours driving, which meant less gas and more sanity.  The Ohio Turnpike was awesome.  Let me rephrase that…the Travel Plazas (rest areas with gas stations, fast food restaurants and bathrooms) were spectacular.  They were clean, had WIFI and seemed to show up every time we needed one.  The Indiana Toll highway was not so wonderful.

Overall the day was uneventful.  The moment in the day that stands out was when we were in the travel plaza just outside of Toledo Ohio.  We saw the most diverse groups of people wondering around.  There were the Amish women, the nuns, the ethnically diverse travellers and my favourite would be the trucker from Georgia, who looked more like a rapper, that we chatted with, while standing in line for a coffee.