Day 1 of our Road trip, Self Regulation

My husband told me that this trip was for us to relax. Nothing was time bound. We left our house an hour late than our original plan, I did not freak out.

We are now in Midland, Michigan. We have traveled nearly 400 miles yesterday and I would call yesterday was a travel self regulation therapy not only for my special boy but for all of us in the family.

My younger one chose a sandwich over pizza at our first rest stop. It was a good choice. In fact my special one ate some home cooked food along with his sandwich. All healthy choices 🙂.

We were on Ohio Turnpike most of the afternoon. Compared to Pennsylvania Turnpike the toll was cheap but had so many good service plazas. My special boy wanted us to stop at every service plaza we were driving by and that is when he had to learn to self regulate himself and try not pinch me. For our coffe break we had Dunkin Donuts coffee and we got sugar on the side. A self regulation for us 😃.

Due to construction were hit by a traffic jam just after our coffee break. We are not adventurous but with these 18 footer trucks surrounding our car it felt as if we were in one. People were really patient and exhibited good self control during this period as a three lane became one with zero honks. I really loved how my husband and trucker merged into a single lane with ease. This really requires good patience and that too in such a short space.

We didn’t have much planned for the day except for a stop at Sringer Vidya Bharathi Foundation’s Sharada Temple at Farmington. The beautiful temple is situated in a Detroit suburb. Visiting Sharada Temple brings me my childhood memories since I spent most of my free time with my grandfather at a Sharada Temple near my home. My husband knew I would love to spend more free time alone and took my boys to the car so I could pray in peace for a extra few minutes . I could have stayed there forever but I exhibited self control and left the place since it was time for my boy’s dinner.😊

We all lost our self control during dinner. We ordered and ate to our heart’s content forgetting about our diet. 😁

We really had a good day. When our GPS showed 10 miles, 10 minutes , arrival time 10.10 at 10 pm we all had a good laugh. We wanted to be at Midland, Michigan by 10 pm and we almost achieved it.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you all with an interesting travel blog same time tomorrow.😀

I use my desktop while I add pictures. But I am blogging from my phone and it is a new learning. Anyhow if you had missed on my yesterday’s blog here is it https://specialmomsblog.mom/2023/06/16/planning-for-a-trip/.