After eight legal hours of sitting idle, they were off again to another town, another load, on roads linking everything together but their lives.
Riley could not go back to Miami for a deciding Game 7 again, to the town where his team could not close out the resilient Knicks for two consecutive seasons, to face the team that kept raising questions about his legacy as the game's greatest coach.
After a brief interval for handshakes, the train would pull out again, to another town down the track.
The family remained in Fairfield until 1832, when William's profession took them on the road again, to several towns in Vermont and upstate New York.
The Kochs and their Republican allies continue to take advantage of the law's complexity and public ignorance to spread the worst kind of misinformation, hoping once again to create chaotic town halls and anti-government protests once the mandate goes into effect.
You could take the bus to the supermarket and back to stock up, spend your day idling by the pool, work up an appetite by playing netball or table tennis, and use the bus again to go into town for the evening.
Afterward, on the immense, drafty pier that the mayor was using as his makeshift command center, Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, vowed, "We will come back to New York again to see this town... rise from the ashes that we saw today".
Hunters working for White Buffalo, a private wildlife management firm hired by the township, shot 324 deer in Princeton last winter, and the company has been hired again to reduce the town's deer population to 400 over the next five years, from a total estimated now at 1,600.
You can listen again to the Crawley Town fan's forum via the BBC Sussex iPlayer for the next week.
Again he returned to town and got the right one.
