Trip Home

I woke up organically at 5:20am, thanks to the water I drank at midnight, so I wouldn't have an alarm go off and wake up Lin. 

We had taken all my stuff to the car last night except my backpack, travel kit, and laptop. So I packed those up, filled my water bottle, put the last of the whole milk in my Yeti to snag some lobby coffee, and I was out the door by 5:35. 

Lin wanted me to wake her up to say goodbye so I did. 

When someone's sleeping in a hotel room, everything becomes 20 times noisier. Flipping the light switch on to check my blood sugar, running the sink to wash my hands, getting a little bit of ice to put in the water bottle, the door latch closing behind me. 

I felt like I was waking the entire hotel up. 

Since I have a rough time seeing in the dark, I was worried about hitting the road so early, just as I had been last Saturday but because Cape Cod is so much further east than where I live in Maryland, the sun started to come up nicely about 6:30. It was very cloudy, so all the clouds held some sort of magic light, and everything brightened up even before I made it to Fall River. 

One note, I don't know why I have it in my head that right across the Connecticut state line from Rhode Island that there's a service plaza, but there isn't one. And I kept waiting for it, and waiting for it, and it is 90 minutes from the RI state line. 

Hey, Connecticut, get you a service plaza east of New London already, okay? My bladder would thank you. 

I made it to Madison, barely, and walked around for a while. I was trying to pre-load the day with steps because I didn't know if I'd miss an hour because of traffic, and wasn't sure I'd get all the day's steps once I got home. Felt pretty sure I was going to break the 33 day streak. 

Each hour afforded time to get out of the car somewhere. I got gas after the Cuomo Bridge, I got out and walked around somewhere in New Jersey. I got chicken mcnuggets at a Loves Truck Stop/McDonalds in a town called Shartlesville, which was making me laugh because I was actually afraid I might .... Shart myself before I got there. 

I'll be sure to giggle everytime I drive through. 

The ride was absolutely delightful, no traffic, beautiful light, tons of foliage. Relaxing. At my pace. 

There were tons of curiosities along the way, one was a park right on the highway in Carlisle, PA for the US Army Heritage Trail. Right on the side of the highway there are tanks and helicopters - and it looks like a cool place. The internet says it is about a mile walk through, with vehicles and equipment from all different eras of the US Army's history. Kind of unique. Maybe will get a stop one day. 

By the time I got to Chambersburg I was ready for the trip to be done. I thought about getting off 81 and getting on 11 and taking back roads the rest of the way, but I stuck with the highway. 

Toffee was incredibly happy to see me. 

And Doug and the boy were too. 

It was about 2:30 when I got home, Doug and I caught up while Geoff went to the store. We decided to head to the dog park, where Toffee had a pretty great time. There's a dog named buddy, and he loves me and Doug, because we have treats. He's not supposed to have treats... he's on a diet. I still slip him one when momma isn't looking. It isn't fair to give 8 other dogs a cookie, ya know? 

After the dog park Doug asked me if I needed to load up on steps and yes, I did. So we took a long walk from the dog park around the way and back to the main drag that comes to our house. All told a pretty good walk, and I needed it after mostly sitting for close to 9 hours. 

Happy to be home, for sure. And I think the bean is happy too. I thought this picture of her when we started talking about the dog park was priceless. 

Digits below. 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. Two walks, one to the dog park, 15 min/.67 mi; left the dog park and walked around the park and neighborhood, 41 min/1.78 mi. 13k+ steps by midnight

blood glucose:

5:30am: 87
5:30pm: 139
10:30pm: 97

food & meds:
7am: jardiance+phentermine
10am: apple w/pb
1pm: 10 chicken mcnuggets, met+glip
6pm: small amount of spaghetti w/hot italian sausage & sauce
2 beers
7:30pm: ronnie trail mix
8pm: met+glip