This year we wanted to test out an earlier departure time, so we left home around 3:15pm. Surprisingly this worked out well for the first half of the trip, which took us to Vernon Center in Connecticut. We arrived there just before 7:30pm, so we were early enough to take our pick of places to get a bite to eat, rather than being relegated to Burger King, which is the only place we could find that’s open past 10:00pm (and we arrived well after that time last year).