Road trips are awesome.. For the most part

Jim and I decided to take 2 days to drive up to our new home. We drove one day to Sandusky, Ohio where we originally was going to have some significant fun at Cedar Point and then see the newest member to the Tsao family. Well, unfortunately Cedar Point is closed on the weekdays since the summer is over (though summer really still has about 2 weeks left). So scratch Cedar Point!  Let's now have dinner at a local restaurant with the cousins and the baby. Well, majority of the restaurants in downtown Sandusky were closed since it was Labor Day. At this point, all I kept thinking was that I was happy to see Lee, Wendy and baby Sebastian. Who needs food?  In any event, we did find food and also had ice cream with a small serving representing the size of a baby bear! It was delicious, but Midwest serving sizes are a little confusing. A kids size should not be a medium!  Lol.

Speaking of sizes, driving up to Appleton, we noticed a significant amount of triple tractor trailers. Those trucks are huge and haul ass!  We "spied" 36 out of 50 state license plates, made fun of many city names especially in PA. I mean come on - PA just adds ville to anything. (Ex. Limestoneville, Lordville, White4doorfordfusionville j/k). Also, Ohio, are you serious with Fangboner?  Lol!

While driving, we also noticed that the term EZ - PASS changed to I - PASS.  Both Jim and I were hoping that the two were transferable.  They were, but that would have been a huge ordeal since majority of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin's E-Z pass lanes still have gates.  There is no drive through at 15 MPH.  Instead, you pull up and wait 15 seconds for the gate to open after your ez-pass has been accepted.  Could you imagine that on the Turnpike or Parkway?  It is bad enough with traffic as is.

All in all we had a good trip.  There was little to no traffic and a very easy drive to say the least.  We went through major cities, farm land and lots of nothing.  Jim only had one moment of pure NJ hit him and that was in Chicago.  Other than that, we stayed calm, tried to just go with the flow and drove as CLOSE to the speed limit as possible.