Day 1, September 9, 2021

The trip is under way. First stop is the KOA in Erie, Pennsylvania, 658 miles and 10 hours, 45 minutes after leaving home at 7:15 this morning. Heavy rain and thunderstorms coming off Lake Erie in the final hour.

It was a later start this morning than planned by almost an hour. The basement door wasn’t shut tight last night and with a strong wind blowing, it cracked open. Chloe, our strictly indoor cat, decided to venture out into the darkness without us knowing it. When we discovered the door was open, I closed and locked it, not realizing Chloe was outside. She spent the night under the back porch and this morning refused to come out. I had to crawl through the dirt and a sea of cob webs trying to coax her out. She kept retreating to the far corner under the porch, snarling and hissing every time I got close. We pulled up the lattice that surrounds the bottom of the porch and she finally ran into the basement, but not before giving me an assortment of scratches and bites. I took a hot shower and scrubbed the dirt out of all the scratches and bites, putting us farther behind.

Thank you to Bruce and Sue for going over to the house to check on Chloe. She was back to normal and even was missing all the cob webs that covered her head when we left.

But that aside, the trip went fairly well. This is the most miles we will drive in one day for the entire trip. On to Kevin’s house near Indianapolis tomorrow, about 422 miles.

We look forward to you following our adventures.