September 23, 2023 - Saturday



Back on the road! We only had 6 hours to go today, but it really didn’t feel like less time on the road than yesterday. Ben thinks he wants to take the whole 15 hour drive straight to go home. It’s a lot, but I don’t really have a strong opinion either way. I think we should plan to switch off every two hours or so, so that neither of us gets too cramped up or sleepy, but we’ll see what we land on. I really don’t know what we’ll do.

Ben started to have some back pain today from driving all day yesterday (we guess?) and also his nerve pain is back SUPER strong. So…wtf. Suck-tastic. But we got to Maine! We’re here!!! We got to the house after a quick trip to Walmart and settled in. My parents were just 15 minutes behind us, so that was great timing. We popped a frozen lasagna in the oven and then hung out on the beach, hunting for cool rocks and sea glass, and unpacking/making beds (me. I’m the only one who did that part).

Dinner was great, visiting is awesome, the kids are being intolerable and I have no idea what to do about it. We got to put them to bed and have a relaxing evening though. Pretty early bedtime again, though not nearly as early as last night!





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