And we're off!

we are not too tired after day 1! 8 hours on the road from jersey city, nj to lakewood, oh. luckily the heavy rain ended late last night, so we were only hit with light sprinkles. we picked up a sleek dodge caravan from the airport and magically, all my junk fit quite well!

And we're off! Originally uploaded by tremelor.

we can still see out the back window. after about 3 hours on the road we stopped for lunch in khylertown, pa at the roadhouse for some diner grub. we saw mainly trees, but also some appalachian hills and pennsylvania farms. some of the trees are already red! kings of convenience was great driving music for that. josh & i were quite excited to see the ominous cleveland skyline, behind the fog, but what is up with the bugs here in lakewood? our travelodge is disgustingly dotted with these mosquito-ish insects. the waitress at papa nick's told us that these bugs fly in for a few days from the lake and die pretty quickly. they're so nasty. we've been running in & out of doors to make sure no bugs get into our room/our minivan. gross.