Day 1 - Cuyaho...err Somewhere in Ohio

We are off to an auspicious beginning. We left the Doherty’s at 7 in the morning, Carolyn and Meghan in tears (us joyous), and began our 7 hour drive. We received an early scare when we thought we were being pulled over, 5 minutes into our drive, by a cop while we were travelling 30 miles over the speed limit. Luckily we drove safely on and the ride was smooth from there. Of course, the tolls were absurd, and we are required to mail in a toll…somehow. Who the hell has heard of mailing in a toll? Somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania we stumbled upon beautiful scenery, but the highways were very windy and Stuart, not being the very accomplished driver, had difficulty handling the truck. Eventually we crossed into Ohio and soon arrived at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Before entering we stopped at Walmart to buy supplies and discovered just what kind of wonderful citizens Walmart hires (god bless America). At Cuyahoga, apparently, there is no camping (we were not expecting this) so we had to drive around looking for a place to pitch our tents. In small-town Ohio, evangelicals run rampant but unfortunately campgrounds do not. We had to resort to KOA Kampgrounds, which appears to be your run-of-the-mill franchised campground company – we didn’t know there was such a thing. It began to rain shortly after we managed to start a fire, and the KFC chicken we bought for dinner was miserable. We have hereafter pledged not to make impulse dinner purchases due to the intoxicating scent of grease and fried chicken. We hate Ohio. It’s 6:30 in the evening and we have decided to stay in the tent for the rest of the night.