K + H: The Wedding

To paraphrase Austin Powers, “yeah, I did it again baby…” For all of our friends coming from NYC / Brooklyn / Queens / Long Island / NJ, or generally using the Merritt Parkway to come to the wedding:

This is a good way to get from the Merritt Parkway to the Redding Roadhouse: there are other ways to go (even different exits from the Merritt!), but, as Alan Ladd said in Shane, this is “as good as any and better than most.”

Here’s the Google map for all of y’all: can you dig it?  I knew that you could.

If you’re coming from afar to be at our wedding, first of all, thanks–we really appreciate that you’re making the trip and all the effort involved.  Danbury is the closest big town to Redding, a place with its own hotels and its own Walmart; that’s why you’re staying there.

If you use Google Maps to look up directions from the hotel you’re staying at to get to the Redding Roadhouse (use this link to see the route), it seems pretty simple.  If you have a GPS, the trip might also seem to be a piece of cake.  So, why make this video?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Ek5KvCfLU

The Danbury town founders have made a bunch of “turns” in town more oblique than you might expect–indeed, one of the roads you’ll take to get to the Roadhouse is named “Triangle Street,” which pretty much says it all. The route goes through commercial parts of Danbury, which makes it good for landmarks, but bad for scenery.  At certain points, you might think you’re lost, but you’re not.

In the spirit of Yogi Berra’s, “when you see a fork in the road, take it,” we made a video tour of the route.  We hope it helps you get to the Roadhouse on time… bottom line here is give yourselves 30 minutes to get to the Roadhouse from the Danbury Walmart.

A DVD version of this is available on request.  No kidding.  Here’s the Google map, too:

Sure, a lot of the people coming to our wedding are from the area, and the Redding Roadhouse is a pretty well-known establishment.  For anyone outside of the Danbury area though, finding the place isn’t like falling off a log (it’s not terribly hard, but still).  So, here’s a picture of the entrance taken facing south (in other words, if you’re coming from Danbury CT, this is likely to be what you see):

Redding Roadhouse (click for larger view)

The Redding Roadhouse entrance is on Route 53.  If you’re driving southbound and you go past it, you come to an intersection with a bunch of choices and signs.  If you reach that intersection… you guessed it, you’ve gone too far.

Since Google owns all things, here’s an interactive map for you:

Or, you can look at the Roadhouse’s old school directions on their web site (how quaint).

Postscript: picture taken about 3 minutes after acquiring marriage license!