We got a relatively late start. Breakfast at the Village Cafe and then a bit of banking and we were on our way. But two miles from home I realized I grabbed the wrong GPS. This unit does not have any detail for west of the Rockie mountains. When I updated it to Garmin 2009, there wasn't enough memory as I'm using the full capacity of the MP3 player for music and it seems all the memory space is shared. So, turn around and head back to get the other Garmin 2730 with the 2008 maps. Not as much detail and not the most recent updates, but it will be fine for where we are going.
We headed down 95 to NY and then over to Rt287 to avoid the city. We wanted to find the "Lincoln Highway" and we figured we'd start in Trenton. After a bit of driving around we found it and started to follow. Very little to see in this section. A couple business establishments named "Lincoln" this or that. A bit disappointing.
We followed it to Philadelphia, but now it was 5pm and traffic was getting heavy so we jumped back on the superslab and headed to Lancaster. Raining quite hard at this point. Once in Lancaster we called a few hotels and found much better deals 20 miles further down the road in York. A Super 8 for $45 was the deal. we had Dominoes deliver a great Hawaiian pizza and a couple of Cokes as we didn't want to venture out to dinner with the dog and the trailer in tow.
We get to the room and turn on the weather channel and we realize we have a predicament.
Just about all routes west are experiencing some kind pof natural disaster!
The northern route., Rt 80 would take us right through the terrible floods the upper midwest is experiencing. The central route, Rt70 to Denver will have us traveling through a "Blizzard of Epic Proportions" (the weather channel's quote). They are forecasting "feet" of snow and 15-20' drifts in the Texas panhandle area........The southern route on Rt40 has us going though "Extreme Tornado" warnings.........Amazing luck!
I think we are going to go the cental route to Denver. By the time we hit the Rockies on late Saturday, the temps will be in the 50s and i'm sure the roads will be clear. After the storm passes the Rockies, we should simply see rain...................I hope!
That's it for now..............
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I wish I had known where you planned to stop for the night - my mom lives in Lancaster and could have easily put you both up for the night AND she would have LOVED to have done it. She lives about 4 miles off of rte. 30 - right in the heart of horse and buggy land!
ReplyDeleteStay safe in the blizzard of epic proportions!
Audj