8-20-2011 On our way to Finger Lakes

It is now 8 PM just got off the road after 10 hours of driving. We are now in  a Super 8 motel in Amsterdam New York.  We left Saco Maine at 10AM this morning, expecting a long but easy trip.  The Mass turnpike was mostly a parking lot for over a hundred miles, no particular reason except very heavy traffic it was start and stop, hard on the brakes.  About half way through the trip I got a warning light from  the brake system, it had overheated. There are no rest stops on the turnpike and service plazas are a joke,  not enough room for the trucks to park.
 
 

We pulled off the highway, turned on our blinkers and waited until the brakes cooled down.

If that was not enough, when we went through the toll booth, it was not wide enough and the passenger side mirror was pushed out of alignment.  Again there was no place to stop, I was blind on the passenger side. I turned on my turn signal to get to the side of the road, but could not tell if there was any traffic.  Mom went back to the window and stuck her head out to see, waving at the drivers to please let us move over.  After several minutes she finally gave up,  so I started to edge over slowly  hoping the cars would get the idea and let me in.  It was not a pretty sight, lots of "hand messages" from the drivers.We made it over and adjusted the mirror as best we could.

The truck stop we were going to stay at for the night was not where google maps said it was, we missed it by several miles.

So, it's good to know that tomorrow will be a better day, it can't get worse!