Getting up, Panna and I realized we didn't have a lot of time to try to find a car. We spent time getting ready for a busy day. We wrote up the route instructions for the trip to Boston, MA (which we decided we would leave for tonight). We called different car lots to try to find the car I was looking for. It really looked like the model we found at the lot with the pushy salesman would be a keeper, so we called them so we could stop by later. We went up to the log house to get online and look up Carmax in the area, but they didn't have a single car of the particular model that was a 2005 or older, not a one... Strange, so we moved on to pack for the trip to Boston and nearly left the forested property to go see the car again at the "pushy lot" when we received a call from cousin Christelie to say that Monica's cousin had found a vehicle for us at a lot just south of Columbus, at a substantially lower price than the other lot (because of connections ;-) ).

We went there, looked at the vehicle, got in it and test drove it, and discussed business. The salesman was a much nicer man to deal with. We couldn't submit the bank paperwork in time to get an answer this afternoon, so we went back to the cabin, picking up ice on the way. We packed up the car, ate a bit, and said bye to the cats and the forest that was my home for the last few days.

We left for Boston around 8 45 PM via I-71 to the north. Panna drove the first part of the night, and then I drove much of the night. I thought about Mom as we cut through the northwest corner of her home state of Pennsylvania on I-90. Sadly, I noticed that most of the interstate road signs in that state were neglected, leaving them hard to read at night because of the badly faded reflectivity. Through the night, we drove in the northern part of New York state on I-90. Much of I-90 is a toll system, the largest in the US, with very few exits for getting off for food, gas, and rest. If you get on this or other toll roads, be sure you have plenty of gas. It can be a long walk to get gas! I feel it makes for an unfriendly system for drivers. I hope we don't get them in Texas!! Anyhow, I-90 is the longest highway in the interstate highway system, at nearly 3,100 miles.