Yesterday was a tough morning but I left hopeful that today would be better. We start the day with getting breakfast at The Friendly Toast. A great place in Burlington with a lot of Bloody Marys and benedicts. We actually get there early and get to chill in the car for a bit. As the time gets closer, we notice an older couple arrive and start the line so we decide to head out ourselves to wait. This simple action, brought on by them starting to queue up, makes the woman in the pair very nervous and starts to move towards the door more and more even though there's obviously an outside check-in kiosk. Whatever! They open and we get seated. One of the specials for pride month is a "Waffle Lot of Pride". A rainbow waffle with Fruity Pebbles frosting, glitter whipped cream and a rainbow gummy ribbon on top. Abby is psyched. It was a great breakfast for all.

We all PB4UGO and decide to take the side door from there out. It empties out into this little alley between the building and the parking garage structure. This is the kind of place that it looks like one would find a dead body. The city in general has been so clean and presentable. This alley has various paper litter, waste grease barrels, the water outputs from the various air conditioner units in the floors above and the ground itself just looks incredibly gross. Everyoen is hesitant to step out but I figure, what the heck, there's maybe like 25' of alley before the garage, we can do this. I step out and the pigeons start flying around so now on top of the grossness of our surroundings to begin with we need to worry about pigeons poo. We make it out unscatched but learn that maybe side exits aren't always the quick short cuts they are made out to be.

We head off to attempt to complete the eastern part of Route 2. The drive out along Lake Champlain is gorgeous. We stop at a pull off and I attempt to open the door and the strong wind keeps the door closed on my leg. I finally get the door opened now that I realize that Mother Nature doesn't want me out and start looking around and taking some pictures. Abby has realized during this trip that she really like photography and has been using Court's old camera. She's out moving about, looking at different angles, getting different pictures. It's fun watching her pick what she wants to record. We complete the circuit of islands and arrive into New York. We reach a sign that indicates NY is to the left, Canada is to the right. Looking to the right, maybe 100' away is the customs checkpoint and it's completely barren. Not a surprise considering the border is still closed. Into New York we go.

Not a lot else to really report on the day other than a lot of driving, eating, drinking, etc. When Court realizes that we have to cross Pennsylvania she starts to worry because she's used to crossing at its widest point but after being shown how small the part we are crossing is the worries are eased. We make it to the hotel and attempt to check in. The guy at the counter asks me what the reservation number is. For real? I've never had to give anyone a reservation number so I don't have it up. I go digging through my email to find it and I finally get it and the guy is like, oh, I don't need it. Come on! Oh well, at least we get a room and it's not a hot box. Peacing out for the night.

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