We left Maine this morning at 0750, ahead of schedule. 345 Miles to Somerset, New Jersey, our objective for the day. We are at the Fairfield Inn, just off I-287. Main event of the the day was the heat. The North East has been locked in a record-breaking heat wave the last four days, and today, it was as high as 106 on the way down, according to the temperature thingie on our overhead. It stayed above 100 most of the day. No rain in sight, either. We drove without stopping, snacking on the way down on lots of grapes and oranges, very healthy day. After we got checked in, we left the generator on and the air running to keep Buster from dying of heat stroke- then went out to supper at the Somerset Diner. I had a chicken sandwich, hold the bread, Bette had a very nice roast beef sandwich. Very rare! Back to the room, where I crashed for a 4 hour nap.
Bette got some unhappy news after we arrived- one of our reasons for stopping here in NJ, other than to see old friends, and our daughter Tracy, and a visit to New York City for me, was to pick up her late Dad's footstone marker from the cemetery people here locally. When she called to make arrangements to pick it up tomorrow, she was told that they had thrown it out, even though arrangements had been made to pick it up. Bette is understandably furious, but of course, not much we can do.
Tomorrow, it is to be hot again, but perhaps not into the 100's. Plans of this minute call for breakfast here at the hotel breakfast bar, then a local trip to two National Historical Sites, Morristown NJ, which has a Revolutionary War Site, and then Edison, NJ, which has the Thomas Edison laboratory preservation. Then, we're heading down towards Princeton to have dinner and a visit with Tracy. Friday I am headed into New York City for the day, again to visit National Park sites, hoping Tracy will be along with me for a quality day.
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