A great travel day until,,, we were 3 quarters the way to our destination

Where are we today ?

Croghan New York

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       A great sleep last night and up early as usual, heading to a Steria Family Reunion in Croghan New York this weekend. And being a long weekend we wanted to get and early start and hope for the best.
We had our coach secured and car hooked up by 8 am and her Dad arrived then as well. Did not take us long to get on the road, 8:15 am we are rolling along.

317 miles today

he we are all hooked up a ready to roll

her Dad belted in the the recliner and books to read

       Now we had great sailing right along, hwy 401 through Toronto and no delays at all. pulls into the ONroute before 11 am at Port hope and grabbed a bit at the Burger King here just because we could, and enjoyed this rare treat.

early lunch stop

the highway was clear sailing

         We had just passed the Big Apple and a highway sign saying the 401 east is closed at least and hour delay! Apparently a very bad accident. So we stopped at the Flying J in Napanee to fuel up and check our options. Looked like we could try HWY 2 throughKingston and back on the 401. Well this worked very well until we got to Kingston, Them  gridlock, stop and got traffic right through town with the roads most at a standstill. So for 2 hours we managed to travel about 20 miles.

downtown Kingston

        East of Kingston back up to the 401 HWY to find that it was still closed here, back down to HWY 2 further east then finally hopped back on the 401.
        Here we came to the border crossing over the 1,000 bridge into New York State.

love the view from this bridge

border crossing no problem and no lines
bonus

wonderful quiet country roads loving it

      Eventually we arrived at the Village of Croghan NY shortly after 6 pm over 2 hours later than we had planned. But at least we are here.

       We pulled into Laurie and Dave's place set up our coach, met these relatives we have never met before and received and extremely warm welcome. So glad that we choose to drive our coach, so much more comfortable for travelling and we dp have food and facilities right on board, so we can sit in traffic forever if need be , we are right at home weather here or in a campground.

parked at Laurie and Dave's

        We barely got set up and Laurie had us over to her Mom and Dad's house next store, Her mom had whipped up a large pot of chili, wonderful tasty salad, homemade cookies and jello with mandarin oranges.

Suzie and Laurie heading next door 

what a salad

excellent chili sure hit the spot

a tasty desert to wrap it up

         Chatting and getting to know each other talking about so much family history, I headed home just         After 8 pm time to kick back and call it a night.  Looks like they have a busy agenda planned for us tomorrow so we will need our rest and the family reunion on Sunday.

a nice decent sunset
soon gonna  call it a nice.

       It was a good travel day nonetheless , just now crazy about 10 hours of travelling in one day, we should have been able to do it in 7. But then again,it is what it is. We having fun anyway.

      Thanks for taking the time to stop on by and hope y'all had a wonderful day as well.

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