{"id":25,"date":"2007-01-27T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-01-27T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:41:34","slug":"road-trip-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Road trip to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

We felt it was worth going back in time and make a post about our drive to Miami from Montreal.\u00a0 Seriously, we really enjoyed it, even though the 1st day was quite complicated.<\/p>\n

\u00a0We left Brossard around 7am on the 18th and headed to the Lacolle border crossing into NY State.\u00a0 My dad was driving\u00a0us that morning & my mom came with him for final goodbye’s and to\u00a0pick up her car.\u00a0 She\u00a0had\u00a0lent us her Civic for 2 weeks since\u00a0our Car was sold. We felt like teenagers borrowing our parents car. \ud83d\ude42 Thanks so much\u00a0Mom. On the road <\/em>:\u00a0 1st stop : US Fish & Wildlife department.\u00a0 He needed to give us a form for our bird.\u00a0 It was a rubberstamping ; he did not even ask to see the bird!\u00a0 Doh.\u00a0 Now, we had to go BACK to Canada since the US Vet who had to inspect the bird was not at Lacolle, but in Highgate Springs Vermont. They would not let us travel via the USA ; we had to go back to Canada and then to Vermont.\u00a0 Once at Highgate Springs, we waited a good 45 mins to see the vet.\u00a0 Then it was our turn.\u00a0 It took at least 30-35 mins to get the paper work.\u00a0 During this time, our 40 grams Lovebird was holding up 4 big trucks filled with Cattle.\u00a0 We thought it was funny ; the drivers of the trucks were not really amused that a Peach faced Lovebird was holding them up.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once customs cleared, back to Interstate 87 in NY State.\u00a0 My dad\u00a0 (thanks SOOOO much PA; we really appreciated it) \u00a0drove us to Albany where we had reserved a rental minivan. It was way cheaper to rent from Albany than to rent in Montreal.\u00a0 We were really pleased with the Minivan we got ; it was a Saturn Relay (same as Pontiac Montana) with all the bells & whistels such as leather seats, DVD, dual climate, heated seats, etc.\u00a0 We also took the optional GPS unit.\u00a0 GREAT Move.\u00a0 We did not look at a map the whole time.\u00a0 I highly recommend this option if you ever do a long drive.<\/p>\n

The 1st night we slept about 45 minutes outside NY City.\u00a0 The second day we passed all the major cities ; NY, Baltimore, Philly & Washington.\u00a0 The second night we slept in Virginia, just before the state of N. Carolina. The 3rd day was really easy sailing ; the Carolina’s &\u00a0Georgia.\u00a0 Nice highway & light traffic.\u00a0\u00a0We slept in southern Georgia, 10 minutes from Florida.\u00a0 The last day we basically had to get to Miami and cross the wholeof Florida\u00a0; our hotel was right next to the airport.\u00a0Total KM : 2371km + the 300 or so KM from Montreal to Albany. The next afternoon (the 22nd), we flew to Grand Cayman on Cayman Airways.\u00a0 It was only a 55 minute flight.<\/p>\n

Bijou was in the plane with us. Birds are really meant to fly… he seamed as confortable as he is inside our house. Aipa had taken 2 sleeping pills, she was not asleep but a litte bit drowsy. Anyway, she didn’t break the cage and was fine when she came out of the carrousel. It was funny to see her come out with the other luggage.<\/p>\n

Our last family supper at Brossard with Julie’s parents & sister. Note that we are all at the kitchen island ;\u00a0there were no more tables\u00a0in the house. Julie’s parents took care of many things in the house once we were gone and spent at least 2 days on site cleaning the house, calling Hydro-Quebec, etc. MANY thanks to Julie’s parents for all their help.<\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures of our road trip.<\/p>\n

Aipa comfortably seated in her leather captains chair.<\/p>\n

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Bijou also ; with the seatbelt. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Julie in front of one of the hotels.\u00a0 With all our luggage & pets, we always asked for a room at ground level and with easy access. We would park right in front of our door.<\/p>\n

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The Garmin GPS unit. Amazing! “In 200 yards, turn right”<\/p>\n

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The Saturn Relay Minivan.\u00a0 We had flawless performance and it was a big part of why our roadtrip was enjoyable and comfortable.<\/p>\n

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We felt it was worth going back in time and make a post about our drive to Miami from Montreal.\u00a0 Seriously, we really enjoyed it, even though the 1st day was quite complicated. \u00a0We left Brossard around 7am on the 18th and headed to the Lacolle border crossing into NY State.\u00a0 My dad was driving\u00a0us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning-the-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}