Hitting the Road Again

About five weeks ago I delivered four framed prints to the Arts Guild NJ for a curated show, which has been up ever since.  At the time we were told that the exhibition would run through May 30th, but the week before last we received an e-mail telling us that we would need to come pick up our art on Saturday May 25th at 10:30 pm.  Eventually we were told it was meant to be 10:30 am, which made a little more sense, but I still wasn't crazy about the date.  After all, everyone in the show is from the Asbury area, and we were being asked to drive up on the Saturday morning of Memorial Day Weekend and then come back down the Parkway on one of the busiest travel days of the year.  I was told I could wait until Tuesday, but this past week my woodcut class in Belmar was reinstated, first meeting to be Tuesday night.  Could make for a tight schedule that day.

Well, we caught a bit of break.  Been a bit rainy this week, including a bunch of passing showers the last couple of days.  No floods or anything, but enough to discourage some people from being in a hurry to get the the shore.  Early this morning I checked the traffic and weather station on tv and found that things were pretty quiet.  I stopped by the Studio to pick up Molly and we hit the road.  Barely any rain on the way up, and we could see almost no traffic coming south.  We got up to Rahway, quickly packed up our respective artworks, and got on our way by around 11:00.  The weather continued to clear and a few more cars joined us for the return trip, but nothing like a holiday weekend, much less any summer weekend- more like typical off peak weekday traffic.  Back to the Studio where Molly dropped stuff off and picked up her car, then I drove home, happy to have gotten through this task without any difficulties.