Saturday, June 17, 2023

Starting mileage: 2544, distance travelled: 399

And we’re off! It’s 3pm on Saturday, June 17 and we are on the road. After a brief delay (about 24 hours) due to a bout with COVID for David and Susan, we are on our way west. The plan is to get some mileage behind us today and stay in separate hotel rooms to give David one more day to test fully negative.

We stopped for dinner at Chik-fil-A at a New York Thruway rest stop.

Hotel rooms were pretty booked up around Buffalo and we had to pay for two rooms so we stayed on the cheap at a pretty sketchy place off the highway in Batavia, NY. They gave us adjoining rooms but when we got upstairs, it slowly dawned on the kids and Susan that they were in a room that someone was already staying in! They freaked out, ran into dad’s room, and only after Susan got a different room did they realize that, in the hurry to vacate the occupied room, someone grabbed the guy’s bag. Now Susan had to return to the front desk a third time to explain…epic fail! It’s surprising how disturbing it is to be in someone else’s room…at least they weren’t in there when we came barging in like we owned the place!