After a several months of staying at home we were back on the road for a short trip. We headed east to Durham for grandson Daniel's elementary school promotion. We left on Tuesday about noon and tried our best to get the Sprinter washed - first in Wytheville VA where there were about 10 semi's in line - no not willing to wait over an hour....then near Burlington NC where there were 2 semi cabs, and a bus in front of us...we waited 30 minutes with nothing moving one inch- so we left there too!
Stopped in Chapel Hill to pick up Bon Chon Chicken for everyone which we remembered being really good from a road trip several years ago. Well it was pretty good - not as good as we remembered - the "spicy" was too spicy for most of us but 20 pieces and the fries were gone quickly. We were a little worried about traffic in the Triangle but it was not nearly as bad as we had expected. Everyone arrived within about 15 minutes - Jeff from work, Robin's Dad from MD, Robin and Daniel from a class field trip to the NC State Capitol and us from TN. Not any photos.
Wednesday morning Daniel's cheering section were all there for the promotion ceremony at Pearsontown Elementary in Durham. It hardly seems possible these past 6 years have passed! The cute little kindergartener is now a mature preteen ready to go to middle school! So happy we could be a part of that momentous day.
After the ceremony we headed north towards Mount Vernon VA. We had plans for touring on Thursday. We lived in Alexandria back in the 60's and never made the visit . We had made several trips back to DC over the years but somehow never made it to Mt. Vernon then either. So our plan was to stay in Mt. Vernon/ Alexandria and avoid as much DC traffic as possible. We arrived in the DC area at 5 PM and we were expecting the worst...if we had been leaving DC it would have been terrible but not so bad on our side of I 95. We exited on US 1 and were in Mt. Vernon with little trouble. Not wanting to drive far from our hotel we walked about half a block to a Denny's and had their special - a grand slam. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash browns. Simple, good and just what we needed after a long day.
Our drive today was pleasant - we are listening to Chesapeake by Michner - it is 40 hours long so will be more than long enough for the entire trip and should be interesting since we are going to be in the area most of our trip - although we will not make it over to the Eastern Shore this trip.
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