We started the day with breakfast at Cracker Barrel (Yay!). As always, it was delicious. Today’s drive was 245 miles and we arrived at Beth’s sister Kathy’s house near Albany at 2PM. The traffic through Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York was the heaviest we have encountered on this trip and it rained most of the way. We will have to consider another route the next time we come to Albany because the roads we took today were in very bad shape. We came over the top of a hill on I-287 in New York and had to slow for flashing lights and quite a few vehicles pulled off on the right side of the road ahead. It’s a good thing we were slowing down, because we had no way around some major potholes in the road. We hit a huge one that had rebar exposed that hit so hard it yanked the steering wheel hard left. I thought sure we would have damage, but we appear to have survived it. Needless to say, all of the cars on the side of the road had flat tires (probably bent rims too).
The weather in Albany is perfect and we are looking forward to more of the same. We went to the local Cracker Barrel and picked up a takeout order of their new Fried Chicken and some mashed potatoes and green beans to eat with the family back at the house. Terry stopped by before her shift started at 4PM and both Lori and Donna came by after work and joined us for dinner.