Tesla Road Trip

Sunday, April 19, 2015

The dinner on Saturday night for all the road trip participants was at Adam's Rib in Salisbury. We only had trip to freshen up, feed the Lucky dog and a quick walk before we headed out. Freshen up meant to look in the mirror and say "Oh, well" and dash off.

Can't tell everyone how great it is to have the navigation system in the car.  I think this trip has taught us how to really appreciate it.  Most of our driving since we got the car has been to places we were pretty familiar with.  Maybe we thought it was only to find places to charge.  When we asked someone on this trip where something was they just said type it in.. Type in Adam's Rib and you get directions so you don't have to follow someone going to New York. I think I miss real maps especially since starting tomorrow we haven't really decided where we are going......or maybe it is an "old person" thing"  Naw - can't be that!

Saturday night we sat at a table with six other people, one couple we had spent quite a bit of time with, the others were new to us.  You have to remember that we have been living in a very small town for the last eleven years and the conversation level is mostly weather related, political opposite of what we think or about people we have never met or heard of. To listen to everyone talking about the Tesla's tech side, places we should go and their experiences was so interesting and I guess I should say - refreshing.  Living in rural Oklahoma where a lot of people never go seventy miles to Oklahoma City or can't imagine driving in Dallas still gets to us after all these years.

One of the guys was from Toronto, Canada and he suggested we come to Toronto and take the Trans Canada Highway to Vancouver.  Now that sounds fun.  Another couple from Maryland are going cross country to California this summer. We had a guy from Tesla at our table who came to speak at the lunch on Saturday about some of the tech side of the car.  He had a beautiful accent and evidently was Serbian, Another very interesting an intelligent man had lived and gone to China many times and there was a couple from North Carolina from India.

I am learning on this trip that we have stayed so busy the last eleven years we have fallen into a rut I don't like.  We took the leap and came on this trip - the first one in fifteen years - and there is now no turning back.  I can honestly say that of the hundred people in this group there was no one that we would not like to spend more time with, The people we have met on the road have all been friendly and interesting which is not what most people in the Southwest believe.  The best thing is the huge mix of different accents, different nationalities and different color all having a great time together.

Too many people are missing this beautiful country we live in. Tesla people do sort of go from one charger to another but it makes you stop every couple of hundred miles and take some time to look around. I really have lived in a lot of different places, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Detroit, several moves in and out of the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and Norman, OK. Moving with children to all these really cool places made us get out and check out the area. They had the experience of touching the Liberty Bell, visiting the NJ shore, snow skiing in Michigan, camping in Canada, walking around Market Square in Philly, seeing the Tall Ships and so many other things we would have missed.
It seems like all the Tesla owners get this and it was fun to hear all their travel stories around this country.

We decided to stay another night at the hotel in Salisbury.  After three days on the road and the trip to the beach, we needed a day to veg.  Also needed to plan where we are going to head next. All I really know is that we are going to head to New Jersey so I can hear more of that wonderful Jersey accent and have a Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich = Marshell does need to see the Italian Market In Philadelphia and Market Square and Independence Hall and the Ben Franklin Museum and...............