NEW YORK CITY - THIS TIME IN DAYLIGHT

We pulled into the dealer's lot in Quakertown, PA this morning at 9am, and an hour later we were unloaded and had received a dispatch to go to Belmont, New Hampshire. We are picking up a boat that was sent to New England Fiberglass for repairs and delivering it to Lake George New York. Seems we are in an east coast delivery pattern lately!

With fresh hours we take off headed to the New Jersey Turnpike and into New York City by way of the George Washington Bridge. The two previous times we have been routed this way, we have made the journey in darkness in the wee morning hours. This time we will make our journey in daylight and the traffic that comes with it. Surprisingly, what I thought the traffic would be and what it actually was, wasn't all that bad. Sure there were slow downs, but for the most part, traffic kept moving, albeit for all the toll plazas we had to go through. Thank goodness the Company has a transponder in the truck, or we would have to carry a safe full of cash to pay for the tolls and then get reimbursed for.

We thought we would be able to get to the shipper before he went home for the day, but we pulled into Belmont, NH right at 6pm. He told us of a little shopping mall that we could stay in for the night and we found us a out of the way spot to park, happy to see there were no signs indicating "no parking". The shipper will even come get us in the morning and have us follow him about a half mile away to where we will load the boat.

We are keeping an eye out on the storm system that is heading east and keeping our fingers crossed that we can make it to the dealer in Lake George without running into any trouble. The dealer is located in a pretty remote area, which I'm sure we will have our usual fun trying to maneuver the tiny little roads and make the turns to get to where we need to be to unload the boat. About this time we are both looking forward to one day soon heading back west and the wide open spaces and roads!