Stuck in Albany

We are MARRIED!!! Which is, of course, great, however we are now stuck in Albany, New York waiting for Amtrak to deal with the massive flooding that they are experiencing here. What this means to us is that our train is seriously delayed.

The plan here is to take the train from Boston to Seattle in three legs - we have completed leg one - and to pick up our 1964 Series IIa Land Rover and drive it back to Southern Vermont where we will be greeted by our loving dogs, bird, rabbit and, most importantly, my fantastic son Tom!

We like to say that we are powered by gasoline and blind faith since we have never seen the truck that we have already paid for. Certainly there are reasons to worry: the fact that the truck sat in a barn for 35 years and more than likely has rotted seals everywhere and will fail within 100 miles; that I am not so handy with a wrench, but do have a box of parts and tools to try to fix things if I need too; the price of gas. We have good advice from Steve at DAP in Springfield, Vermont - who for the sake of description is the honeymoon guru and Rover advisor - and Spot satellite locator products - who have graciously provided us with a SPOT for our journey. We will be reviewing its usability on our trip and expect it to be much fun providing information to all as we travel the country.

That's all for now as the train is boarding!!!! We will post from Chicago. Hope everyone is having a great time in the rainy east coast and please keep your fingers crossed for us for good weather because... um ... the windshield wipers don't work on the IIa.