Oh it’s bigger than I thought it would be…

Jessica:

1 suitcase

2 overnight bags
Laptop
Tennis racket
2 grocery bags of junk food
1 extremely overpriced (yet muy chic) purse that I have no business owning

Meredith:
1 Florida bag
1 on the road bag
1 car-only bag
Laptop
1 bag of “thanks for being a great teacher” gifts
1 bottle of wine from some kid

Destination: Annapolis, MD
Time to arrival: 3 hours, 38 minutes

3 and a half hours is about how long it took me to drive between Syracuse and home. It’s really nothing, should be a piece of cake. Definitely no stopping will occur… um, why are we stopped? We are not even as far down the NJ turnpike as the exit for Merck, ie, really not far from home, and already we have encountered traffic. I am starting to think this may have been a really bad idea…

Fuck. We’re going 10 mph. And somehow we have managed to eat half a can of Pringles, and I managed to misplace the cap… someplace in the area of my seat. We have also managed at this point, to completely memorize and successfully predict the XM 20 on 20 songs. Luckily Meredith isn’t sick of my loud singing yet. In the area of unsuccessful, I would put my relentless but fruitless efforts to take photos of the highway signs at 75 mph, in the dark. I think we are delirious and we’ve only been in the car for 3 hours… only 16 more…

I would sum up our time in Annapolis as: crab dip, crab soup, crab cakes… and then my friend Julia, the unlucky host of the road trip loonies for the night, had to go and have the crab omelet for breakfast. Thankfully I am in a vacation state of mind, because if I was crabby… we’d be over the crab quota. Now, where are all the Navy men at??