After a short and restless night, we were up at 1:30 and out of our driveway by 2:10. It was a cold morning that required a lot of "scrapping" before we could see out of our windshield.
The drive around DC was very easy as there was hardly any traffic - Dah, it was early! We stopped well below Richmond for breakfast at a Denny's and wasted no time. Ken actually got gas while I went inside and ordered our meal. We made numerous bathroom stops throughout the trip, mainly at rest stops, had lunch at Subway (got gas there too!) and all went well until we hit South Carolina. We were detoured by Goggle off I-95 3X's because of accidents and that certainly increased our travel time.
Ken drove most of the trip (about 16 hours), as I only drove 1 hour earlier in the day and then all of Georgia (113 miles). Sometimes Florida can be terrible on I-75, but although there was a lot of traffic, it moved well. We stopped at a Chick-Fil-A for a very "nutritional" dinner around 8 - chicken tenders and a large peppermint milkshake! It may not have been healthy, but boy was it good!
We finally arrived at the CG at Port Charlotte at 10:30 and we were thrilled to be done driving. We unloaded most of the car and put somethings in their proper place, made the bed, and by 11:15 we were headed to dreamland.
We felt exhausted, thankful and blessed to have made it, but sort of promised each other that we won't do this trip in one day again. (Until the next time, probably!) It does take a toll!
Hard to imagine that it was 26 degrees when we left PA and the low during the night was 65 degrees here in Port Charlotte! I like it!!!!!
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