Counting the Cars on the New Jersey Turnpike

Sunday May 31st

After a great breakfast with the family (Rob, mom and Edward) at Moo...











and a stressful time at Penske we finally got to the house with our 16 foot (not 12 foot as was promised by the Penske people) truck.







With the help of my parents and brother along with friends Chuck, Deirdre and Joe we had the rental truck packed in about an hour.









Edward and I were off. An ambitious goal of making it to Woodbridge Virginia that night lay ahead of us. A location I had strategically chosen because of an Ikea location, and Edward was excited about because it got us through the Beltway during a non- rush hour time.

Edward fell asleep somewhere near Baltimore but with the help of some Red Bull we powered through and after a few precarious u-turns in our 16 foot truck we found a comfy place to crash for the night.

Our Monday morning Ikea trip was successful and since it turned out that all my stuff only filled like ¼ of a 16 foot Penske truck we had plenty of room for the furniture we bought. With the truck fully packed we headed on down to Georgia…