Trippin

We went for our first big trip this week. We travelled down to Maryland for Passover holiday with Ilana’s family. Over 1000 miles round trip in a rented Ford Focus. Our family van is having some difficulties and will likely be sold by the end of the month. It’s one of those situations where repairs will be between 2000 and 3000 dollars, and if they don’t happen the engine will eventually destroy itself. I hope we can find an econo-honda or efficient Toyota with medium-miles on it . Unfortunately, Alden’s car seat won’t fit in the truck (passenger air-bag) so being a one vehicle family isn’t an option.
The trip down was pretty good, all things considered. We went with the understanding that we could only drive in 3 hour segments of time before having to stop and feed/change the kiddo. The stop-start traffic in Connecticut bothered Alden, and he took a tremendous dump in New Jersey. For some reason the traffic getting off the NJ turnpike at 11pm was a disaster. It took the entire Wallflowers first album to travel the two miles from the off-toll booths to the bridge.
We arrived safe and sound in Maryland around 1:30am and went to sleep as quickly as we could… after feeding and changing Alden.