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Day 1: Very Rocky Start But There is a Red Sky Tonight!

So today was supposed to be our first day on the road and I was supposed to be writing this from the Jerz. However We never got there. Instead Alie and I are at her old house in Connecticut. And here is why in a timeline.

9:30am going to pack the car but realized there was too much stuff to move out Alie completely and bring some of my bigger things home. So we had to go back and drop some of my stuff off and some of Alie's bigger stuff. While loading Alie's bigger stuff we notice that the back passenger side triangular window is smashed. This is unfortunate because we have parked near Alie's countless times and never had a problem. We find its ironic that some act of vandalism would happen on our last true night in Boston. So we only partially load and then vacuum out the large pieces of glass, having to go to two seperate gas stations to find a working vacuum. (THANKS HESS!) So after the car is vacuumed we load it at Alie's and then unloaded at my house. It is about 10:30-10:45am.

!0:45am We go back to Alie's to pick up the keys and do a bunch of small chores around the apartment like clean it, take out the trash, empty the fridge, close all the windows, take out the recycling, etc, because it needed to get done and no one else was going to do it.

11:15 we go back to my house to return the parking permit.

11:30am We give the keys of Alie's apartment away.

11:45am-12:00pm We head to Comcast to drop of the cable equipment this takes us until about 12:30ish because we waited in line while and older women asked the same questions over and over again to the service rep. Thats done and we start out on the road.

12:30pm We pull over at the Natick rest stop because I think I left my camera in Boston. I tear apart the car and its not there. Alie and I realize that the smashed window wasn't an act of vandalism but in fact robbery or what the police report calls Minor Larceny. They took my nice digital camera. What is frustrating for me is that 1. I had left the camera there in the car the past few nights and it was fine. 2. I am usually very careful with things like that. I took in a lot of other expensive equipment except for the camera. I slip up one time and its gone. 3. If it was just a few inches towards the center they wouldn't have reached it.

12:50pm Head back to Boston to file a police report.

Arrive in Allston at 1:20 or so call the police drive to the District D14 station and file a report.

At 3:00pm this point it starts to rain while we are in the police station!

So we finish the report and decide to try to patch the window with plastic and ducktape, but the rain stops and we just head to CT around 4pm.

Arrive at 5:30 in CT. And the good news begins to trickle in.

So that covers today pretty well for us. I'll give the good news tomorrow once its more solidified.

What I learned: NEVER leave ANYTHING in a car in plain sight. I know this should be a given but after 3 years in the same area you let your guard down a bit and I like to think that people are inherently good.

Been to 3% of the US
Miles Traveled: 95.8
Total Travel Time: 1h 55m
Average Speed: 54.1MPH
Gas Used: Didn't think to look (less than 1/4 of a tank)
Wrong Turns: Depends how you count it
Distance to Go: More then there should be
Whats keeping us going? It can only get better from here on out and we've solidified some of our plans.
Next Stop: NJ

PS would've posted a picture of the damage but Alie's camera is broken and mine is gone. Maybe I'll post a broken window from Flickr and say it was ours.