Road Trip '09

Road Trip '09: Success.

With the help of my two dear 'tub' friends, Dorothy and Tori, I traveled from Maine to Colorado in a 22-foot Penske rental truck, aka The BFT.

Adventures were aplenty and laughter abounded over the course of 6 days on the road.

Highlights include:

• Pre-Game: Dinner in Boston with the gang

Me, Dorothy, Erica, Tori, & Jamie

• Day 1: Picking up the truck, saying goodbye to Buelah the Buick, then inadvertently exploring the back roads of Maine thanks to our free-spirited friend GyPSy. Fortunately, we happened to find the Colbrook County Club in NH - not a bad place to stay

Trading in Buelah the Buick - I'll miss her - for the BFT. And yes, that is the truck completely packed.

• Day 2: The Speculator Farmer's Market and driving through Vermont & the Adirondacks

VT = Vermont. Clever, we are.

• Night 2: Staying with Rachel in Constantia, NY whose crotch chairs around the fire and hospitality will not be forgotten any time soon :-)

• Day 3: Niagara Falls & Crossing into Canada
  

• Day 4: Watching the sun rise over Lake Erie - Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario
  

• Night 4: Depositing the BFT at an inner city WalMart and going out on the town in Chicago to Christine's Wine Bar, Websters
  

• Day 5: The Most Intense Thunder Storm of My Life, 60 miles east of Des Moines, including phone calls to the family for final farewells and weather reports

• Day 6: Stumbling upon Fern Thomas (Green Fern, Doubting Thomas) and her beautifully quaint antique store outside of Kearney, Nebraska

• Night 6: The Welcome Home Sunset over the Rockies

The home-stretch

And we still like each other. A lot.

Ladies, thank you for your tremendous friendship and for sharing a journey full of laughter and adventure!

And thanks to everyone who wished us well on our voyage - it couldn't have gone better.