New Jersey and Maryland cont.,

Blackness was all around us, we had at least another hour of day light and we could see it in the far distance, we felt like we were in the film "war of the worlds" racing towards the light, it was scary!
We turned off the toll road at Cleveland and took the highway 271 through the centre.  The buildings were all lit up, it looked beautiful, we were so glad we came through in the evening.  We picked up the I90 and stayed near Geneva.
Saturday 11th May
We awoke engulfed in fog again, misty rain, miserable.  We left Ohio staying on the I90 into Pennsylvania, past Erie and then into New York State, another toll road.  We passed Buffalo to fuel up at Corfu.  We were staying on the I90 all the way to Boston, Massachusetts.  It was going to be a long day, not much to see but green fields and the occassional golf course.  The delivery
was due 6am (their time for us 4am) tomorrow so we had to get there tonight. Just past Albany we went over the Hudson river and then it was Massachuttes, it was 4pm and we were heading for Taunton.  Massachuttes was a breath of fresh air after the landscape we had had today.  It was all hills with forest with different coloured trees, lakes in valleys and dark rock where the road had been cut through.  The verges were coverered with orange moss and new little ferns were sprouting on the edge of the forest floor.  It made you feel all warm inside at the beauty of it all.  The rain had stopped a while back, there was alot of low cloud and occassionally the sun would streak through.    
Sunday 12th May
After the delivery we drove out of Taunton, mostly residential, it was so pretty with their boarded houses all different colours and blossom out in their neat gardens, it had been raining overnight and everything looked fresh and new. We were on the I95 in Rhode Island, Providence was just waking up, buildings were shrouded in cloud.  The port was quiet, not many cars on the road.  We stayed on the I95 down through Connecticut, of course we had been on this road before.  We liked it here.
The road followed the coast and you would get a glimpse of how people were living near the waters edge. The sun was out today thank goodness and we were stopping at Milford to fuel up and have a shower. Despatch had sent a message to say our Maryland drop was now monday afternoon.  It was a hot sunday afternoon going through a busy New York.  We were still on the I95 in traffic to go over the George Washington Bridge, we did`nt have to pay going over from this side, i was people watching, it was Mothers Day here and lots of people had flowers in their cars.
The I95 was now a toll road.  Travelling down into New Jersey for our second drop near Haddonfield, a place called Cherry Hill. But when we got there the company was closed, just as well our Maryland drop was now tomorrow.  We had to wait for the morning, luckily enough across the road was a river with large parkland.  We took maddy for a long walk and saw some geese with their goslings, they were so cute.
Monday 13th May
We were up at 4am (their time 6am) we waited for over 3 hours for them to start unloading, its so frustrating!   I took maddy over to the river again, i`m so pleased she`s with us!  We set of back on the I95 to Maryland.  This was a new road not just for me but dave aswell, it was exciting!  We were going to go through Baltimore and under a long tunnel, our destination was Severn. We passed over a large suspension bridge (a toll) from New Jersey to Delaware, it was so high we could see Wilmington in the distance, we did think it was Philadelphia ha!  Over a bridge at Susquehanna River.  Reaching Baltimore, a concrete jungle with roads and flyovers everywhere,
through the tunnel and before we know it past the airport and we were at Severn, another small
inustrial park set in a residential area, unfortunately with this one we were locked in the yard with a guard on the gate, funny how some meat plants are relaxed and others over strict.  Oh no doom struck again it was 1pm and everyone went home at 12 noon!  Oh well we had to come back in the morning. Dave had to have a reset as he had done 70 hrs so we would find somewhere in Baltimore to stay and have some time off.  While taking maddy for a walk i came across a snake,
i`m not scared of snakes so i went closer to have a better look, its tail started to vibrate and it was quite large!  so i decided to make myself scarce rather quickly, dave did think it was a rattle snake!  
We already knew what our return job was, upto Toronto with bananas and then another trailer over through Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan to Calgary. We were going on that terrible highway 11 again so i was bracing myself!