Vancouver to Boston - Day 3

Well today was all about the mileage. We have covered about 910 miles and bar a few short stops for gas and snacks we have been driving all day.

I have been in a record number of 6 States today, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. I have to say, Minnesota was very cold, bleak and flat but I was happy to catch a few glimpses of places and road names I recognised from the John Sandford books I read which are mainly based there.

Wisconsin was nearly a major distraction in that I wanted to visit Milwaukee to see if the Fonz was still jumping sharks and Point Place to see if I could find Fez but alas time was not on my side and Carolyn was having none of it.

Driving through Chicago brought back memories of the marathon last October and it really is a fantastic skyline, again it was a shame time did not allow a stop over.

Indiana and Ohio were just a blur as we tried to get to the hotel as quick as possible. We did have a quick drive through a town called Gary and as you might expect from the name it was not much to look at.

Today saw the last of the time zone changes happen from Central to Eastern. Meaning that I get 24 hours back in my day, or at least until Monday.

One slight issue arose when the GPS told us we had arrived at our hotel for the evening, it wasn't there! After a quick look round we confirmed it was indeed not there and had to start knocking on a few hotel doors seeing if they had a room for a night. Thankfully third time was the charm and we are all checked in and looking forward to getting some shut eye.

Because we have covered so much ground over the last few days we should be in Boston by early evening tomorrow. We only have around 650 miles left to go so in the scheme of things it looks like an easy day lays ahead of us, here's hoping.

One last thing before I sign off for the evening. On Monday before this adventure begun I did make it down to the Olympic Flame site in downtown Vancouver. It is fairly heavily barricaded off so none of the stupid head protesters can mess with it but it does look rather magnificent. This outdoor cauldron was lit by some guy called Wayne*, who, my Canadian friends tell me, use to play a little ice hockey or something :)



Last road trip post tomorrow before a couple of days in Boston then back to the UK for a visit.

*N.B. If you don't know who the Olympic Flame lighter was, it was a the Living Legend, Wayne Gretzky. To him up in a few words for those that haven't heard his name before and I'm sure there is not many he is undeniably the best Ice Hockey Player ever to have been and has set the bar fairly damn high for anyone to follow. His nickname is 'The Great One' and this has been highly earned. It is said it was like he could see a few seconds into the future and would get to where the puck was going to be before it was even played. It would have been inappropriate for any other person to open the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.