Location: West Suffield, CT
Julia had a doctor’s appointment this morning, so she was up and out pretty early. Upon her return, we visited her neighbor, Jenn, for a little while. Jenn’s son, Dylan, wasn’t feeling very well and her daughter, Morgan, was napping. It was nice to see Jenn again and I know Julia really liked being able to catch up with her. At roughly 3 p.m., we packed up our things and hit the road. We had hoped to avoid getting stuck in traffic, but things were slow at first.
We first stopped in Manchester, where I bought a 500 GB external hard drive for my brother, his birthday present. We met my brother, his friend Sean and my mother for dinner at Chuck’s Steakhouse & Margarita Grill near the University of Connecticut campus. The food was good and Jared liked his presents. Everyone got a chance to see Data, and he was extremely excited by the familiar faces. Before leaving the area, Julia and I swung by the Daily Campus, the UConn newspaper. We met with our friend, Melissa, who gave us a few copies of the paper that featured our road trip on the front page (click here to read the article).
Following our time at UConn, we saw the 10:30 p.m. showing of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins at a theater in Manchester. As we’ve traveled the country, one thing we’ve noticed is the fact that theater popcorn is almost universally unsatisfying. This theater has always had the best popcorn I’ve ever tasted, so seeing a movie there was a treat just for that reason. The movie itself was better than I expected. There were plenty of laughs, though I still wouldn’t call it a great movie.
Following the movie, we returned to my house in West Suffield. Data immediately busied himself by investigating scents familiar to him from 209 days ago and was very excited. Julia and I brought the essentials inside and settled in for the night.
Tomorrow, we are going to fully unpack the car and prepare our final posts, which will either come tomorrow night or Sunday.
Here are a few photos from today. Click “there’s more to this” to see them all or visit my SmugMug.
Julia and Dylan. Continue reading ‘Day 209: Home, But Not Quite Done’