Driving to and from Wicked Lindy....

.....was somewhat stressful and terribly time consuming.

We rented a Chrysler 300 for the drive so that Juan, Sharon, Kevin and I had enough space for us, our luggage, and some food for the weekend. It was rather roomy, but apparently had no pick up. Kev and Sharon were the drivers for the weekend, so Juan and I got to take it easy sleeping in the back.

The drive from Pittsburgh to New York took us six hours. We stopped through NY so we could get our hair done at Laicale, Kevin's sister's salon. The next morning, we didn't get up at 8am, like we were supposed to, so we were running late (about 3 hours). We wanted to be out the door at 9am, but we got up at 10ish, had breakfast at a darling cafe downstairs, stopped by a photo shoot for Kev's sister's new clothing line, and then headed off. By leaving around 12:30pm we got stuck in traffic an hour outside of Boston. Traffic sucks. A lot. And it also started to rain. Rain and traffic together really sucks. To top that off, we were running late and were most likely going to miss our class. And what really did us in was the fender-bender we got into. The people in front of us were driving along at a slow pace of 20mph and then all of a sudden slammed on their brakes. We would have stopped in time had we not hydroplaned into the car in front of us, and that car into the one in front of them.
After dealing with insurance companies and the lot of them, we decided to stop somewhere and get some real food. We were hungry and tired, so it seemed like a great idea. We pulled off at the next rest stop and looked around for food. We saw a Subway, but wanted something more substantial. Unfortunately, there wasn't a whole lot in the area and were about to give up until we saw a chinese food restaurant. We assumed it would be good food because it was in a nice neighborhood and was most likely a good hole-in-the-wall sort of place. We were so very, very wrong. The food was super nasty and super greasy. What a mistake.

In total it took us 14 hours to get from PIT to BOS over the two days. Luckily, we only had a 10 hour drive on our way home, so we felt like we got off easy. Let me say, don't plan to do that much driving unless you are well rested, and really like a road trip. I was fun to be in a renal car, but otherwise, I could have totally skipped on the experience.

Ciao