Sunday May 15th 2016

A cold front went through the area overnight. It didn’t rain much, but it lowered the temperature big time. It was in the 40s when I got up this morning and never made it into the 60s during the day.

I got an early start to try and get ahead of the traffic heading inland. For the most part I succeeded. My day slowed down when I stopped at MacDonalds for breakfast. This morning it was anything but fast food. The restaurant I stopped at seem to be short staffed with trainee staff to boot. It took two tries to get my simple order of a Big Breakfast with a large coffee entered correctly. The first time whatever she entered came out to $2 more than I knew it should total. Once that was corrected I joined the other 6 customers waiting for their order. It took more than 15 minutes for my order. Some of the others ahead of me were still waiting when I was served and the drive thru was also backed up.

The trip back to the cape this afternoon was not a problem for me. People going home from the cape were not so lucky. There was very heavy traffic heading inland from the cape. The Massachusetts State Police were out in force to oversee the traffic. It seemed like every 5 miles or so a State Police SUV was watching the traffic or had someone pulled over.

During my winter travels I have observed a lot of police officers on the road in sedans, unmarked cars including trucks and a few SUVs. The state of Massachusetts seems to have converted most of its fleet of police cars to SUVs. Of all the state police vehicles I saw today only one was a sedan. I think it makes sense to use SUVs for police cars. They have more ground clearance and probably have four wheel drive.

Corp of Engineers Cape Cod Canal Patrol boat. The only boat I saw in the Canal this evening.

Back at the campground the weekend residents have all departed. It is quiet again. During my hour long walk on the canal service road, I only saw a few people. The boat traffic was even more scarce. I only saw the canal patrol boat go by during my walk. The radio scanner set to the marine frequencies has been equally quiet.