July 3, Wednesday Around 13:30 on Wednesday things seemed slow enough at work that I saw an opportunity to make an early start for the White Mountains. I quickly gathered all the things, and departed by 15:00. Around 15:20 a phone call caught me on route 128, and I made a stop on a Rest Area to connect to work and do some fixes. The connection was unusually slow, and I couldn’t get close to the windows (for better signal) because of the sun. Around 16:46 I was done, traffic became a solid menace by this time. Instead of braving the traffic for several hours on the way to New Hampshire, I decided to…