It's Very Nice to Go Travelling: The End of the Road Trip - August 24

The Family at Joggins

The final day of our road trip arrived!  Happily, we ended the road trip enjoying the generous hospitality of our friends Patti and Susan.  We probably hadn't seen them in nine years when they moved from Philly to Maine and it was great catching up with them.  It was also nice to see the girls get to know them. 

Susan gave us some great directions home - avoiding all the mess on 95 (Boston, NYC, NJ, etc.).  It was a great nice drive and we only made a few stops.  It ended up being a 9.5 hour drive from South Portland to Philadelphia.  It didn't seem that long and we were happy to be home.

We were playing Sinatra's Come Fly with Me in the car and so I'll leave you with these lyrics -

It's Nice to Go Travelling  lyrics by Sammy Cahn

It's very nice to go trav'ling
To Paris, London and Rome
It's oh, so nice to go trav'ling
But it's so much nicer
Yes, it's so much nicer to come home

It's very nice to just wander
The camel route to Iraq
It's oh, so nice to just wander
But it's so much nicer
Yes, it's oh so nice to wander back

The mam'selles and frauleins and the senoritas are sweet
But they can't compete 'cause they just don't have
What the models have on Madison Ave

It's very nice to be footloose
With just a toothbrush and comb
It's oh so nice to be footloose
But your heart starts singin'
When you're homeward wingin' across the foam

And you know your fate is
Where the Empire State is
All you contemplate is
The view from Miss Liberty's dome
It's very nice to go trav'ling
But it's oh so nice to come home

You will find the madchen and the gay muchachas are rare
But they can't compare with that sexy line
That parades each day at Sunset and Vine

It's quite the life to play gypsy
And roam as gypsies will roam
It's quite the life to play gypsy
But your heart starts singin'
When you're homeward wingin' across the foam

And the Hudson River
Makes you start to quiver
Like the latest flivver
That's simply drippin' with chrome
It's very nice to go trav'ling
But it's oh so nice to come home

No more customs
Burn the passport
No more packing and unpacking
Light the home fires
Get my slippers
Make a pizza