Weekend Adventures

Last weekend Marc and I took a trip to Ocean City, Maryland. His dad just bought a beach house in the area, and we went down to help him with the renovations. I spent a good part of the weekend with a paintbrush in my hand. Once we got to the new house, it was great. Getting there was sort of the hard part.

We left Pittsburgh around 3:00PM last friday. According to mapquest, this was about a 6.5 hour trip. The trip was going well. We got off the PA Turnpike at Breezewood and stopped at the Sheetz for a quick dinner and bathroom break. We got back in the car and continued on our way. I fell asleep somewhere after our stop, but only for a quick 20 minute nap. When I woke up it was starting to get dark and we were getting ready to get on Route 50 in Maryland.

Around 7:30 we were driving along on Route 50 when it happened. The road looked like the one in the picture above: a four-lane highway with a grassy area in between directions. Marc and I were in the passing lane, keeping up with the flow of traffic. The road had a speed-limit of 55, so we were going about 60 mph. All of a sudden, we see a car (coming the opposite direction) go off the road, into the grass, and landed in our lane of traffic. The nose of this car was basically in our way. Marc swerved his car to miss hitting the uncontrolled car. We ended up going into the grassy area.

Marc got the car under control, and we did NOT end up in the oncoming traffic. I guess you could say it was an accident, but no one actually ran into each other. The state police were called, and a tropped showed up about 10 minutes later. She got the story of occurrance from the two drivers and two witnesses that had stopped to see if everyone was ok. The car that lost control in the first place was fine, and she drove away shortly after. Marc ended up with a flat tire on the car, so there we were, in the middle of nowhere, with a State Trooper and a stranger, changing a tire in the middle of a highway where everyone was in a hurry to go nowhere.

No one was hurt, and we drove away from the scene about and hour and a half later. We made it to the beach house around 10:30PM that night. On the way home Sunday morning, we stopped to get a new tire. It was a one-of-a-kind weekend. The house is coming along, and the weather was beatuiful down there. We can't wait to go back!