As you may have noticed, my part of the adventure began a little later than I’d anticipated. The video I was creating for work was not cooperating – I was finished, but I couldn’t actually save it.
As it turns out, my Premiere is b0rked and has to be reloaded. But that set me out at 6:30 instead of 5, boo!
Gini(zoethe) and Ferrett (theferrett) kindly picked up Lucy in Cleveland and had dinner while I drove across a few state to meet them. They’d saved food for me, and we stayed up late talking (you may see a pattern there as the trip goes on). We all woke up way too early and went to the Original Pancake House, and then parted ways in the rain. That part of our trip was definitely too short.
The next part was not too short – the drive from Cleveland to Lowell, MA. Still, we had music and snacks and each other, and the time honestly went by faster than we expected. It rained, we switched drivers, no trouble.
We met up with Kati and Josh for the second time ever, and they were just so ridiculously kind, generous, warm and friendly. They’d spent days cleaning their house so i wouldn’t die of cat allergies, set up our room special with new sheets and such, and otherwise took special pains to accomodate us. They treated us to Dinner at a Hibachi restaurant (my first time), and brought us back to play video games and chat.
On Sunday, we drove out to York, ME and cruised the beach for awhile. It was only my second time ever on this side of the coast (well florida doesn’t count), and we made our way up to an old lighthouse, where I took awesome pictures of the spray on the rocks and the ancient iron ties keeping the “lighthouse bucket” from falling into the sea.
We came back to have Wicked Cheesy Pizza and play more games. Kati had to say goodnight (leaving for work at 6 am), so Josh chatted with us while Lucy stitched and I played We Love Katamari. Da, dadadada da da dada da dada daaaa…
We came downstairs this morning to a sweet note on the door and a sweet email from them, and I just want to say that if any of you awesome people find yourself anywhere near Lowell, MA, you need to look up yakavenger and blazepoet. They don’t have too many close friends in the area, but they deserve millions of adoring fans.
Lucy and I will be on our way to Worcester, MA for lunch with minkrose and blondbaron, yay! Then we’re off to Kennett Square, PA to spend the bulk of our trip with my fine family.
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