April 20th 2018
Leaving NY state to Ocala Fl
We left at 4am from NY. I had survived the 19 and all that the day had delivered me. 3 segments of HARP education and 1 role play. My very last Syracuse University course. (for now) and a very restless (only because I was excited) night of sleep....and we were ready! Mark dropped me off at Stefanie's house and we threw in the luggage and off we went. The day was still dark...and cold....and we had a LONG drive ahead of us....18 plus hours according to Suri....LONGER was the actual time.
4am and READY!!!!
First stop was the PA state line...
Only about 1.5 hours south of home. We were still excited and feeling like we were making great time to the warmer weather. Pennsylvania is ALWAYS the longest state, and generally the state with the MOST stop and go traffic. Somehow we made it quickly and we were onto the next state line. Next was Maryland.....No welcome center was found. But we had some dunkin. We had A-LOT of Dunkin on the way down. Every state we stopped we had some coffee.
After Maryland was West Virginia.....Getting a little restless by now...but still stoked. Stopped and had some lunch, where I nearly killed us all with EXPIRED Mayo. When I packed sandwich stuff, I grabbed a bottle of squeeze mayo out of the cabinet. Guess I was outdated, but had not reviewed the date until we had doused out lunch with it. Expired in December of 2017..ahhh not so good I'd say. Of course the girls had a laugh at me and thank goodness none of us became ill.
Virginia is for lovers...we are nearly 1/2 way to Florida....
The Virginia welcome center had tons of places to get pics.
And even a triceratops to sit on.
I caught a selfie with the Rocky Mountain backdrop. BEAUTIFUL.....(Some other trip perhaps.)
And..... then we made it to North Carolina
We spotted these "Cousin It's" all along the side of the road....What are they????
then to South Carolina and we made a stop at South of the Border.....
Hello Pedro!!!!!
It is always fun to stop at SOB for some cheep souvenirs and some silly pictures.
We simply had to get the Sombrero's pic.
After South Carolina, we were starting to fade.....Georgia was some time ahead....and we still had about 6 hours to Ocala where we would meet up with Caitlyn. We were all feeling a little pooped.
We started discussing finding a hotel for the night. We'll I found one just about 30 minutes outside of Georgia in the town of Walterboro NC. It was a Ramada Inn. Lets just say you get what you pay for. This place was YUCKY. "Bates Motel maybe????" Thank God it was only for one night, and all we were doing was sleeping. STAY AWAY FROM THE Ramada Inn in Walterboro NC. Eweee!!!!
So far, I have attempted to poison my traveling companions with expired Mayo and now I am booking us at the Bates Motel. Will we make it to Florida alive?
It was an early morning stop well before the Welcome center was opened when we hit Georgia.
and Zip a dee do da....we were in the Sunny State of Florida. We made it!!!!
Free OJ at the Welcome center and a pose with an Astronaut.
We finally made it. It was a long long long drive but we are here!!!!!!! Just about three more hours and we will be at Caitlin's for some visiting. See next post for Ocala Florida. TTFN
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