We left Monday 9am and got to Wytheville VA in good time. Unfortunately we delayed making our reservation at the Bolling Wilson until we were certain that the day was going well. The availability in the morning disappeared sometime during the day which left Sandy finding an alternate. The Comfort Inn was marginal and the order-in pizza was terrible.
That was Monday. When I went to the car Tuesday am, I discovered that the vehicle beside us had driven over a full plastic bottle of calamine lotion which exploded pink stuff all over one side of the car and trailer. The rain on the drive to PA mostly took care of that.
We didn't get a lot of rain, a few downpours. Heavy thunderstorms were coming through and road signage posted warnings. As we got close to Nazareth, Sandy went online and setup appointments for our covid tests at a nearby cvs. We made it to our Tuesday destination early afternoon.
We received texts and email confirmations from cvs but when I went online to setup my account, it didn't work. I wasted a bunch of time on the phone trying to get my birthdate corrected, figuring that Sandy might have fat fingered it ... long story short she did. That was corrected at the drive-in appt on Wednesday.
That went well, an interesting process. Zero touch, self nasal swab, scan ID and cards, yet another possible point of failure. I thought that they wanted both our Medicare and supplement cards but no. They have Sandy's supp card on file as my insurance. I told the nurse but she said that their system accepted... who knows how that will work out.
It was a hot day. We both ended up in the pool with the kids and Brooke.
I had a 2.5 hour rusa meeting that night.
Thursday. I figured that I should give Hugh a heads up that I was crossing the border and was going to get my frame to him somehow. Yikes. Heard back from him that he was just home from two weeks in the hospital from a brain bleed and was lucky to be alive. Yikes yikes. Of course that meant that nothing was going to happen quickly.
I spent a chunk of time on the phone talking to Alex Meade, a custom frame builder, about a stainless frame. He does steel, mostly painted but also does stainless. More on that in future blogs. I got the CAD drawing to him of the True North frame and he's currently hunting down tubing. Everything is in short / doubtful supply these days.
The day went by without any word from CVS. Without the test results we can't cross the border.
Good news. This am, Friday, just a half-hour ago, results came through. Negative. We can now head to Buffalo for overnight, grocery shop Saturday am and cross the border within the 72 hour limit.
Onward, hopefully. We'll leave here mid day.
From my iwdt
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