Runnin' Down the Highway

Road trip!

Budget Rental Car hooked the Michiganders up with a Ford - we're finally driving an American car!


We started off a little rocky, by forgetting to ask Mapquest to give us directions in kilometers, so we spent the 137 miles converting miles to km - running 5Ks turned out to be helpful.

When not rounding everything to the nearest 5K and missing the entrance to the freeway, I managed to take pictures as subtly as possible, without distracting the driver - who signaled every turn to the audience in the car by first turning on the wipers. Left is right and right is left.

Back seats are good for nappin' in any country.

This sign made us smile. If it's raining here, you should slow down from 100, (let's see, a 10K is 6.2 miles, so a 100km is...)

The freeway is short and sweet, then we're back to roundabouts -
look right and hope for the best. Steven reminded me that right around here in the trip, about 2 hours in, the car beeps and suggests that you take a break for a while. The iced cappuccino that the driver had suggested that we keep going for at least another 30 minutes.

We found a few more words for Molly's spelling list.
Let's start with the edge of the sidewalk next to the road:

My personal favorite is the official government document that you need to drive a car. In all my years, I've never been able to figure out if the 's' is first, or the 'c'. Here in Australia, it's so much simpler, all 'c's! Licence! Sweet.

On the way back home, we followed this rockin' bus for a while. If you cannot read the fine print, it says "Licenced for 50 party animals, 35 seated and 15 dancing" and the 15 really were.