Triumphant Return
Well Mark and Jay got back safe and sound and tired yesterday. They had driven pretty much non-stop and had made it to Philadelphia around noon on Saturday. The dogs that they were transporting were very nice and well-behaved in the car and both of the boys liked them quite a bit.
After about 20 hours of being in the car, when they were about three blocks from their home in Pennsylvania, the dogs got restless and excited. They knew they were home. At last they arrived, and the dogs' owner was absolutely overcome with joy. She was happy to have her dogs safely back home, and extremely grateful to the boys for bringing them so far and doing such a nice deed for a total stranger.
Mark and Jay visited with them for a few hours and were treated to all the best types of food that Philadelphia had to offer. It was a really pleasant visit, but there was a storm on the horizon, so the boys said goodbye and started on the long trip home again.
Along the way they worked out how to solve a few of the world's problems, drove, slept, and asked a lot of total strangers what the capital of West Virginia is. I think naming all the state capitals was their little way of staying awake and alert, and that one stumped them. When they were stopped in traffic, they would roll down the window and start a conversation about state capitals with people on the street or in other cars near them. Silly Canadians!
They drove for something like 17 more hours, crossed the border again, and made it to the ferry terminal in New Brunswick with a whole hour to spare before the ferry left. Then, after a three hour ferry ride and one more hour of driving, the heroes returned triumphantly!
They made it through a magic window of (almost completely) good weather, with storms here while they were gone, and storms in New England chasing after them as they drove home again.
3,700 kilometres on the road.
52 hours of traveling.
2 provinces.
2 countries.
7 states.
1 feel-good Christmas story.
PS - The capital of West Virginia is Charleston. Who knew?
4 comments:
Wakko knows all the States and Capitials, and therefore I can if I can sing the song long enough, but usually I can't remember all the lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUDDaEOvuY
ps. Glad to hear Mark made it home safe. Hopefully I'll get to see you guys soon.
Re State capitals--
I love it! Better than asking for Grey Poupon! I sometimes want to tap on windows of cars when I'm biking to ask directions or something, but I'd feel like a squeegee kid. I prefer interacting with people who don't shield themselves with metal and glass boxes (and live in plus freezing temps, to be fair).
Uggh, Wakko names the "state capitols". It's "capitals", as you have written... oh god.. my childhood education came from this show.
Charleston has a lovely capitol building... not much else, though. Glad the boys made it back without being inundated by the big blizzard (which we got down in Virginia). I'm impressed that they went all the way to Cape Bretaaaaahn for the doggies. Yay for M and JC, and yay for the dogs!
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