Our two day journey started Monday morning, and we arrived in Connecticut late Tuesday night. Both days gave us some traffic obstacles, so it feels good to finally walk around and not feel like we're trapped in the Jeep. Stanley thanks us for that as well.

During our trip, I took some pictures (the best I could) of something from each state that we went through. Nebraska doesn't get one since we were only in it for 20 minutes and Connecticut doesn't either since it was pitch black out when we arrived.



Driving through the state of Iowa might be the 2^nd most boring drive in the country. Behind Eastern Colorado/Western Nebraska, of course. It's just a monotonous boring where it seems the scenery never changes.

I've never seen so many "Wide Load" trucks in one state before. There were make-shift houses and long flatbeds as far as the eye can see. The only cool ones that we saw were six trucks carrying the arms for the large wind powered windmills. I've never seen that up close before, so it was cool to get a perspective on how big each one of the arms really are.



Illinois welcomed us by being the only state where unleaded fuel was more expensive than diesel. The strange fuel prices were an indicator of how our drive would fare throughout the state.

We made it five miles from the Indiana border with no problems at all ... then we entered the toll road. It was 4.40 when we payed our $0.60 and knew that we would be in Fort Wayne, IN by 7.30 or so to have dinner with Jared and Tesa. Little did we know, we would still be in Illinois at that time. Right as we payed our fare, we came to a complete stop on the other side. Five lanes of traffic were merging into one lane to ironically merge onto the five lane Interstate.

Because of Hurricane Ike flooding the Interstate and major Highways near Gary, In, the DOT was merging all of the traffic south. It took us seven hours to move seven miles. If you actually think about that, we sat in our car and did not move for a very long time. There were 20-30 minute stretches where we didn't move. We didn't even creep forward a few inches.

After we made it south to Hwy 30, the Jeep's speedometer finally hit double digits and we crept to a normal pace to complete the rest of our journey. Jared and Tesa couldn't have opened their home and their hearts more to us as they allowed us to stumble in at 2.30 in the morning. After 19 straight hours driving (which is not a personal best), I was ready to crash ... even if it was for only five hours.



We woke up Tuesday morning, showered and let Stanley hang out with someone other than us. After driving the graveyard shift to get to their house, we didn't have too much time left until we arrived in Ohio.



Since we didn't go through any major cities (and by major cities, I mean the two which house MLB teams), the drive wasn't anything special. Akron was the only highlight to break up the same view that we had through the state. I was disappointed that in our only fuel up in the state, they discriminated against the two dollar bill.

After taking an unexpected detour by going on the wrong highway, we finally got our bearings straight and headed towards Pennsylvania. We can't thank mom and dad enough for lending an atlas to us for our drive. With our Google Map/Mapquest generation, I had two pieces of paper with directions to get out there, but never thought about what would happen if we went off course. We ended up using the atlas more than we thought and it really helped us pace our journey.



My body finally told me that I needed to stop driving and catch up on some sleep. I decided to listen and Stan and I took a nap while Christi took over the wheel. After a few hours of sleep, I awoke to the most beautiful and scenic drive that I've ever been on. Whomever designed the interstate system through Pennsylvania should receive an award, or a pat on the back at the very least.

Until we entered New York, there was never a moment where we weren't amazed by the surroundings.



New York wasn't much. It was getting dark and we passed through the state in about an hour. Having been to NYC before, we feel that we have already experience a lot that the state has to offer.

Once we got to Connecticut, we thought our trip was finally over. We were then greeted by another toll road and more road construction which backed up traffic (and our trip) for an hour. Finally, we made it to Farmington and were able to unload our Jeep and get as settled as we could.

Tomorrow we are traveling around the surrounding areas in search for a place to live. Our temporary housing is nice, but we already can't wait until we can unload all of our boxes and have our belongings returned to us.