Driving Travel Day

Yes, that’s right, I am a traveling fool! Or a fool for traveling. After having a nice relaxing day yesterday, I did a long drive, from Geneva, NY to Belfast ME. In my Tesla. So much easier and faster and better in my long range Model 3 than it was in my standard range Model 3. Woo hoo! And it was an almost perfect drive. No inclement weather. No traffic slow downs. Easy peasy!

Nice driving weather

I had three super charger stops. And all three were new to me. The first was in NY state near Albany. In a strip mall like location. The super charger was busy, but I got a space as soon as I arrived. No place to go to the bathroom unfortunately. Trust me, I looked. Looking took me all the time that I needed to charge. So when I got back from my fruitless wanderings, the car was ready to go. Good thing, as there were two people waiting for a spot.

The next super charger was in MA. At one of the Thruway’s rest areas. That made life much easier and quicker. I didn’t have to get off the thruway, drive to some out of the way place and then back again. And I got to pee. Woo hoo!

The last supercharger was in ME. Unfortunately, it was not on the thruway. It was at a Fairfield Inn. Fast chargers, which is good. But the stoplights to get there were really long. I mean like 4 minutes long! So I wasted almost 10 minutes waiting for lights to change. Grr. And no bathroom. I guess I could have gone into the Fairfield Inn and asked, but I didn’t really have to go. But it is good to have a bathroom at a charging place if one needs it. Imho.

I got to my sister’s place around 6:45 pm. I spent a few minutes setting up the charging for the car. It is very slow charging as it is just from the wall outlet. Maybe I will go into Belfast tomorrow and charge more. We shall see. I’m not too worried since the car is a long range. I could probably make it to Augusta and charge there if push came to shove when I head home.

J made a yummy chicken dinner. I think I am going to make a slow cooker recipe for the 23rd. Pork. Since J said that she has a big batch of beef stew that she made already. And we had chicken tonight.

I don’t think I am going to do much Duolingo tonight as I am in a decent spot in the leaderboard.

Augustus for President: I had a lot of thoughts and put them all in the database already. Like, who votes the most. Why don’t we target them somehow? Seems like a good initial strategy.

In the car, I listened to a decent book. Unfortunately it didn’t live up to the title – Giving Up is Unforgivable. It had a bit about voting. And had some good thoughts and ideas for books and such that I would like to read. I have added those to the database as well.

How Did it Become Sunday?

Back to the grind tomorrow, sort of, I guess. Since it will be a weird holiday week. I don’t really know what my dashing schedule will be like. I am planning regular dashes on Monday. Maybe just one dash on Tuesday. No dash Wednesday. Two dashes Thursday. One dash Friday. Who knows.

The drive home was long but not terrible. It was misty and damp for a lot of the trip, despite the weather reports suggesting it was only going to be cloudy. My windshield got really dirty a lot. Maybe I need to invest in better windshield wipers. During the drive I was sent to two new-to-me superchargers. One had the weird pizza place. And the other wasn’t really near anything but a Starbucks and a Subway. Though I might have been to that one once before actually. Hard to remember. Not that all supercharger locations look alike, but…I also had more phone calls on this drive than I have in a long time. J called me twice. SM called me twice. And I had a lovely long chat with BS about family history. I need to dig up some stuff for her in fact. I hope it comes to hand easily. I could have done with one less hour of travel to be honest. But I made it back safely and soundly, which is the most important thing.

I looked online and it seems that there are some cleaning services in Rochester that might come help out here. I will call them on Monday, if I get the deposit and signed lease back before then. Heck, I might get them in anyway. It doesn’t hurt to have a clean house. Except for when something is too shiny and it blinds you as you enter the kitchen and you stub your toe, fall over and impale yourself on a chopstick…

I posted the post last night without proofreading, so I am going to update it now. Only one minor change. Yay!

I have discovered that I am not a huge fan of cashews. Not sure why that is as I am, in general, a fan of nuts.

Are these cute or what?

They were called “money bags” at the Thai place last night. I need to look into them more and see what they are all about. They were pretty tasty as well! Found a few recipes that I will have to peruse later.

Back home after dinner with SM, R, JC and EC at Anorah. Good food, good conversation. A nice way to end the year (sort of, I guess…) It wasn’t very crowded for their last day being open for two weeks. More hamburgers were ingested by some, I had wings and fries and a salad. And I ate about half of all of that. Maybe less. What’s the opposite of a tape worm? I might have that. Still, I thought it was yummy overall. And we had a nice server who boxed our food for us.

I have laundry to fold. And that’s about all I have in the way of tasks I think. I could pay bills, except I haven’t seen my energy bill yet. I can’t imagine it is huge. The weather has been pretty mild. And during part of the cold snap, I was away, so the heating was not extravagant one would imagine. I guess I will see tomorrow when my mail is delivered. I am surprised that I didn’t have it delivered yesterday. I am not sure what I was thinking.