{"id":223,"date":"2008-08-12T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/missouri-trip\/2008-missouri-trip-day-two-from-pittsburgh-to-dayton\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T06:03:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T10:03:42","slug":"2008-missouri-trip-day-two-from-pittsburgh-to-dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/missouri-trip\/2008-missouri-trip-day-two-from-pittsburgh-to-dayton\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Missouri Trip: Day Two: From Pittsburgh to Dayton"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second post in a series of our trip to Columbia Missouri.\u00c2\u00a0 To read what Padre, Panda Bear, and Meerkat were up to in our absence, check out the Furry Bambinos blog<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, July 29, David and I went over to Patty’s apartment to help Patty clean her place.\u00c2\u00a0 We chose the divide and conquer technique: Patty took the bathroom, I did the kitchen, and David washed all the windows and vacuumed all the carpets.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, Chris headed to my parents house for some much needed napping, since Rainbow and Muse spent most of the night trying to alert Patty and Chris about all the missing furniture and boxes.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris did not get much sleep Monday night.<\/p>\n

While we cleaned, Rainbow was tucked into the living room closet, and Muse was on top of the kitchen cabinets.<\/p>\n

In a few hours, we were done, packed up, and ready to drop Patty’s keys off at the management company office.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a photo of Patty in front of her apartment building.\u00c2\u00a0 She lived there for 13 years!<\/p>\n

\"09-patty-at-apartment\"<\/p>\n

\"10-patty-at-building\"<\/p>\n

After dropping off the keys, we headed back to my parents’ house to unload items that were staying with my parents, rather than going to Missouri, and reloaded the vehicles.\u00c2\u00a0 Given the steep grade of my parents’ street, it made for an interesting experience!<\/p>\n

We took a few photos before heading out.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a photo of “The Fambly”: Jim, Patty, Dad, Mom, and Chris:<\/p>\n

\"11-family\"<\/p>\n

This is a photo of “The Four Intrepid Travelers” (well, the human travelers that is).\u00c2\u00a0 David, Sue, Patty, and Chris:<\/p>\n

\"12-intrepid-travellers\"<\/p>\n

We set off at about 5:10 pm EDT, with Bruiser, Rainbow, and Muse riding with Patty and Chris.\u00c2\u00a0 Cinnamon and Toast rode with David and me.\u00c2\u00a0 I took this photo of Patty and Chris’s vehicle in the side mirror of our mini-van:<\/p>\n

\"13-rear-view-mirror\"<\/p>\n

We stopped to gas up the van right away at the Sunoco in Crafton, PA.\u00c2\u00a0 Bought 10.6 gallons at a total cost of $42.40.\u00c2\u00a0 Mileage at 163.6.<\/p>\n

Westward bound!\u00c2\u00a0 We took I-79 South, then changed to I-70 West.\u00c2\u00a0 We crossed into the panhandle of West Virginia at about 6:09 pm.<\/p>\n

David’s quote: “The speed limit is 70!\u00c2\u00a0 Sweet!”<\/p>\n

\"14-welcome-to-west-virginia\"<\/p>\n

We took turns taking the lead.\u00c2\u00a0 This time, we followed behind Chris and Patty.<\/p>\n

\"15-on-the-road\"<\/p>\n

In about ten minutes, we left West Virginia and entered Ohio at 6:21 pm.\u00c2\u00a0 The stretch of West Virginia that we crossed is very narrow, only about 10 miles wide.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t call it a panhandle for nothin’!<\/p>\n

Once we got to Ohio, the traffic thinned a little, and we let Cinnamon and Toast out of their carriers, AKA PTU’s (Prisoner Transport Units).\u00c2\u00a0 Both of them did not like being cooped up, and let us know, LOUDLY<\/strong> and REPEATEDLY<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Cinnamon apparently thought that David could use some help driving, and within three minutes of being let out of his carrier, climbed into David’s lap.<\/p>\n

\"16-cinnamon-on-david-lap\"<\/p>\n

David told Cinnamon to get OFF<\/strong> his lap so that he could drive.\u00c2\u00a0 So Cinnamon climbed onto the dashboard instead:<\/p>\n

\"17-cinnamon-on-dash\"<\/p>\n

We finally got Cinnamon settled in the middle seats where he had a great view, sitting atop a cat carrier:<\/p>\n

\"18-cinnamon-looks-out\"<\/p>\n

Fur covered the inside of the van within an hour!\u00c2\u00a0 Every time\u00c2\u00a0I opened a map, fur flew everywhere!<\/p>\n

At some point, we passed Patty and Chris, and Cinnamon waved to them (with a little help from me)\u00c2\u00a0as we drove by.<\/p>\n

We stopped for a rest break at 7:12 pm, and ate the sandwiches that Mom packed for us.\u00c2\u00a0 At this first rest stop, a mere 2 hours into the 2-day drip, we learned from Chris that his muffler pipe had broken away from the catalytic converter!<\/p>\n

\"034-muffler-pipe\"<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the pipe was still connected to the vehicle, but the noise was deafening for Chris and Patty!<\/p>\n

Cinnamon calmed down during our rest stop.\u00c2\u00a0 He sat and napped on my lap from our rest stop for the rest of the drive on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"19-cinnamon-on-lap\"<\/p>\n

We made it as far as Dayton, Ohio by 10:15 pm EDT, where we stayed at a pet-friendly Motel 6 for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 “One pet per room”.\u00c2\u00a0 Um, yeah, close enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Cinnamon and Toast hung out under the beds most of the night.\u00c2\u00a0 Cinnamon occasionally climbed on and around David overnight.<\/p>\n

Miles travelled from Pittsburgh:<\/strong> 250.5<\/p>\n

5 hours on the road, 4 hours of driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the second post in a series of our trip to Columbia Missouri.\u00c2\u00a0 To read what Padre, Panda Bear, and Meerkat were up to in our absence, check out the Furry Bambinos blog.\u00c2\u00a0 On Tuesday, July 29, David and I went over to Patty’s apartment to help Patty clean her place.\u00c2\u00a0 We chose the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}