springtime in virginia

For the next few months, I'll be traveling with my dear friend Rob. We decided that before leaving the country, we need to get a little regression out of our systems. Hence, the first leg of our travels begins with the East Coast Regression Tour, i.e., road trip in a rental car from New York to Florida with stops at select amusement parks. Before officially embarking on the amusement park tour, we stopped in McLean, VA to visit my dad and dogs, Sully and Parker. (Mom was in LA, visiting my newborn nephew Elliot. More on him later.)

Sully is a nine-year-old lab and Parker is a three-year-old Maltese. Sully and Parker come together as one unit; they are inseparable. How cute are they?! Here is another shot of them.


Back to the road trip. Rob and I rented this silver Jeep Commander to transport some furniture to his sister's condo in Naples, FL. Although you can't tell from the photo, every inch of the Jeep behind the driver's seat is tightly packed with boxes and random pieces of furniture, all of which we drove down from New York in a Uhaul 10' truck. After executing this impressive packing job, Rob and I decided that if all else fails job-wise, we will start our own moving business ... which won't offer any vehicles larger than this Jeep ... and allow packing only on unseasonably warm days ... and permit drives only on routes that have good amusement parks ... yeah, good plan.