The Drive to Long Island
T his past weekend, we headed down to Long Island with Lukey and Kenzie in tow to visit some of my family. It is always a lot of fun or perhaps just "more amusing" traveling with Lukey and Kenzie but the drive down to Long Island was brutal and far too long this time! We arrived completely spent, exhausted, and hungry. What should have taken less than six hours of drive time, ended up taking us over ten hours. We had detours due to washed out roads and bridges, we had construction traffic, but mostly, we had significant problems with traffic volume. The traffic volume problems started the moment we entered Connecticut and we crawled all the way through Connecticut and onto Long Island. There are simply far too many cars on the road today. Clearly, the cost of gas is far, far too low. We eventually got into town just in time to get some pizza before all the restaurants closed. We actually drove straight to a local pizzeria before checking into the hotel because the pi