Driving to Boston

July 1st - We started driving from Atlanta at 6am this morning and ended up in Baltimore by 6pm. Even though it was 12 hours of driving, it flew by on long stretches of highway through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. We stayed over at Jonah House, a small religious house where radical nuns and laypeople live. They are entrusted with taking care of an old cemetery and in order to do it they own 2 goats, 2 llamas, and 2 donkeys who eat a lot of overgrowth. We took the donkeys for a walk after a pleasant dinner with the nuns.



Highlights:
- Went to a self-serve Dunkin' Donuts, first one ever

Musings:
- Can people named Gus have non-bus driver professions?
- Why don't adults own hampsters and gerbils as pets?

Games Played:
- Choose an adjective ending in "y," such as grumpy. Subtract the "y", add a "mc" to the beginning and a "ster" to the end to make any adjective sound funnier. Examples: Grumpy-mcgrumpster or chubby-mcchubster.

July 2nd - The drive was awful today! Even though we had a shorter distance to go and avoided going through downtown New York, we still hit hours of traffic in random places at random times. We went through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersery, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts - phew! To top off the day, we got lost at hour 12 in downtown Boston where there are no true rights or lefts and streets only maintain their names for one block. We were very relieved to arrive at Josh and Christy's house (quite late).