Day 13/14 - Home

Sunday we expected to get up and just hit the road, but when we entered Eric and Myra's home, the smell of bacon was in the air.  Eric treated us to a home cooked breakfast so we were well fed when we departed Pikesville, NC at about 9:15 AM.



Eric and Myra were great hosts and it was a very nice visit.















After nearly two weeks of goofing off and visiting friends and family our next destination was home, all good things come to an end.


We left with the intention of taking I95 to DC then routing towards Binghamton, this is our normal course, we sometimes park at the Binghamton Cracker Barrel for the night. However, I have a friend who insists that I95 is better. I recognize that it saves about 90 miles of distance but have memories of being caught in the east coast metropolitan traffic, but it was Sunday, how much traffic can there be in Sunday? We decided to give I95 a try. We missed an exit in DC that gave us a nice tour of downtown DC and cost about half an hour, but that was my fault and we got back on course. The I95 route takes you from DC to Baltimore, past Philly and NY.

Let's just say, unless it is in the middle of the night, we will never take the I95 route again, it just sucks. Yes the western route through PA adds nearly 100 miles, the roads are not great and jammed with trucks, but it is a much less stressful drive. The traffic on I95 is bumper to bumper and goes from 70mph to 0 instantly. We would sit in traffic for a half hour at a time and then take off only to hammer the brakes a few miles later.  It was not pleasant and we were happy to bail out onto I287 (again adding miles) in Edison NJ just to escape the madness. I feel for the people who deal with this daily.


After getting on I287, it was pretty smooth sailing, and we decided to just push on to home. We arrived at home at 00:30 this morning. We had been on the road for just over 15 hours and covered 795 miles. It was our longest and most stressful leg of our driving vacation, not the way you want to end it but we were glad to be home.







We are back to reality and the weather of the northeast. But it was a nice two week vacation in the sun.








There is no place like home.  Now we have to unpack..work tomorrow.