Goodbye, Lou!
On Thursday morning after one last cup of coffee, we pulled out leaving Anneke and Lou sitting on the front steps. We would be driving east on I-80 through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and mostly Pennsylvania. The route provided us the most wonderful fall color tour. Even with mostly overcast skies, the colors were magnificent. The hills rolled before us in a patchwork of fire-like reds, oranges and yellows with accents of maroon, lime, coral, burnished gold, and brown. Awesome!
My mind worked on possible ways to describe what we were seeing…hill upon hill of brightly hued colors like a tightly hooked rug of varying lengths which, flung across the landscape, falls in gentle folds…or hill upon hill of brightly hued colors like an embroidery done in tightly packed knobby French knots…. You get the picture.
Connecticut greeted us with winds and rain and colors blurred by windshield wipers. We passed the 6,000 mile mark on the odometer. We joined endless trucks on the route and encountered two lengthy tiresome backups. We wondered if I-90, a toll road, might actually have been the better route to go. We called ahead to a tiny rural RV park and finally pulled in about 7:30 PM to find a little white-haired lady in the office awaiting our arrival. Ah, thank you!
Friday morning we breakfasted on hot cereal while eyeing the thermometer reading 36 degrees. Once in the cab we both eagerly turned on the seat warmers. There was little traffic and the day was sunny with fluffy clouds. Entering Ohio, we lost the lovely hills and most of the colorful woods. The landscape went flat and was covered in brown and stubbly cornfields. We left the clouds behind, entered Michigan, and were shortly greeted by signs saying, “Prison Area: Do Not Pick Up Hitch Hikers.” Hmmmm….
We happily arrived at Nancy’s house about 4:30 in the afternoon. Yeah!
An aside: We have loved listening to different books-on-CD during our travels. Especially wonderful have been Anne Rice’s books Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. We highly recommend them.
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