Three more sleeps 'till Elvis

After spending 10 days visiting family in Bath, Ontario, organizing the build of our cottage in Chertsey, Quebec and celebrating my grandfather's 93rd birthday and Canadian Thanksgiving in St. Lazare, it was time to hit the road for our drive to Oaxaca. In total, it will be about 4500km to drive to Oaxaca, and if we drove straight down, we'd drive for 6 days, about 10 hours per day. We drove in 2009 and crossed at Brownsville, Texas, and then drove down the coast through Ciudad Victoria, Tampico, Veracruz and from there cut inland on the Toll highway to Puebla and then south to Oaxaca. We'll take roughly the same route this time. It's three days of hard driving from the US border to Oaxaca. It's lovely, but long. We're going to consider a dashboard camera to capture the Mexico drive, so we'll put that video (sped up, of course!) here if we decide to do that. Any brand suggestions from anyone out there?

Today we are in New York. Albany was home last night, and the drive through the Adirondack National Park was spectacular, the fall colours were brilliant. Of course the iPad and camera were in the back of the Caravan, so no original pictures for the blog today. I will do better tomorrow! We head to New York City for a night to visit good friends, and then we're off to Somewhere in Tennessee overnight and then... Memphis! I am just about to go online to purchase our VIP tour tickets to Graceland!  Three more sleeps 'till Elvis people! The King's palace awaits us. I am all shook up...