The road

As predicted we left on friday october 26 in he morning. When we got to the border they pulled us aside for the regular verification, they go inside the trailer with a dog and look around, but this time they sent us inside for a random check, we must have been uninteresting because after a few minutes and barely any questions they sent us on our way.

Usually we stop for groceries in Plattsburgh but this time we decided to just drive on and take care of groceries later. We took the 88 to cross from the 87 to the 81, a road that we discovered last year and that is a very good alternative. We had quite a bit of driving to do on that first day and on the 81 we got stuck in traffic, when I say stuck we did 5 miles in 1 hour, at that point we had enough gas to drive 30 miles we were getting ready to exit to refuel, by the time we got to the exit to refuel we had only enough gas for 10 miles we were running on vapors.

We finally got to the campground, we had stop there last year and it was nice and very quiet we were almost alone in he place. As we approached the campground we noticed all the lights and activities, we get there and the parking is full of people, it's now around seven and we have no reservations. We were lucky we got the last available spot in the overflow section.

As we watched the news we are following the progress of hurricane sandy that is still in he Atlantic at that time.

The next day we drove to Whiteville Virginia near the Tennesse state line. We had a cloudy day but all in all it was another nice long drive. By that time the hurricane is at the same level as us but in he Atlantic, there is a state of emergency in place, it is quite evident as we are driving on the 81 going south we see at least 200 utility trucks from all over the place driving north to be ready for the storm going inland. That night we sleep in Whiteville and the next day we drive all the way to Chattanooga. We arrived just in time, if we had left a day latter we would still be stuck somewhere in Virginia where they got as much as 3 feet of snow in the mountains.