RV Road Trip. Ohio To CA. Travel Day 0.

Road trip uniform.

Quick backstory. Steve takes Shannon and the kids back to Ohio each summer as he works training camp for the Niners and gets things set for the season. But this year, because of COVID, they didn’t want to fly and instead borrowed the RV to travel back to Ohio. Now the original plan was for me to fly back there and drive back with Steve. Keep him company, help break up the driving, etc. But after thinking about it, this was the perfect time for the whole family to fly to Ohio and drive the RV back. 

With all the kids’ sports on hold, there was nothing on the calendar. And we could do a ton when we only had to drive one direction.

So, Steve, Shannon and the kids took off to Ohio, and we flew in the day after they arrived. We flew from San Jose to Pittsburgh, PA with a loooong layover in St. Louis. Lots of downsides to COVID, among them, the only restaurant open in the St. Louis airport was Burger King. And not a full Burger King, one that had a printed piece of paper with about 7 items on it.

We landed in Pittsburgh about 7:30 and Steve picked us up from the airport and drove us the 50 minutes to Youngstown.

Much like the St. Louis airport, not a lot of restaurants were open past 8:00 pm in Youngstown because of COVID. But we found a Texas Roadhouse open until 10:00, so we sat down and had a full meal. And Lukas made us hustle back so they could go swimming in the hotel pool before it closed at 11:00.

Then it was an attempt to get to sleep as everyone was still on CA time.

COVID Flying uniform

Doing what the Raiders couldn't,
tackle Franco during the Immaculate Reception.

Starting state for the RV trip.