Traveling South Day 1

Its around noon, and time to depart on our adventure. It seems odd to be leaving RI, after 5 years of developing a life there its hard to leave. I am excited for what lies ahead with rotations, but sad to be saying goodbye to college life.

On the open road, well semi open haha. Sarah and I have many adventures getting to our first destination point of Fredicksburg, VA where my cousin Aaron lives. First we had to conquer getting Garmin to agree to go the Tappan Zee instead of the Washington Bridge, then it was avoiding the crazy NJ Turnpike tolls with the help of Chris Bryan. We learned that there is a chain of stores called Wa Wa, that is apparently all the rave down in these parts, they are a combination of a convenience store and a deli so we grabbed dinner there! The best part of dinner was eating it in the parking lot of a dinner which was the only place we could find to use the bathroom.





Then we get back on the highway and unfortunately the 2.5-3hr drive was drawn out to almost 4 hours due to a horrible thunderstorm that came through the area and resulted in us driving extremely slow...ick, we just wanted to get to VA!!

Finally we arrived in the cute little suburb my cousin lives in an hour south of DC, it was so great to relax after our long and semi-intense drive. It was also great to see my cousin Aaron, with him living so far south we don't get to see each other a lot. Sarah and I both thought he was a wonderful host and were very greatful for all that he did!

P.S. here is a pic of me posing with the walky talkies that we used to communicate with!