Miles traveled: 355
Hours on Road: 6
States covered: 2 – Georgia, South Carolina
As we were getting ready to leave, Tim realized we didn’t have a Peachtree City bumper sticker, and he thought that was unacceptable. While we packed up, he ran out and bought not only a bumper sticker but also t-shirts for the boys. He’d also spent the morning making sandwiches for us and proceeded to fill the cooler with soda, chips, and the sandwiches. He certainly takes care of his houseguests.
None of us wanted to leave, we’d been having so much fun. Time constraints had not allowed us to stay with any relatives for more than two nights, but there was also a little of the “leave them wanting more” philosophy going on in my head. I didn’t want to stay with anyone so long that they were anxious for us to leave. I know us; it doesn’t take long to overstay our welcome.
The ride was pretty uneventful. It was supposed to take us five and half hours and it took us six, so that’s about right. We didn’t have to stop for lunch because Tim had provided us with everything we needed. The only traffic issue occurred when we first got on 26; traffic was poking along at about 30 mph, occasionally picking up to 40. I figured it was beach traffic since we were on the road from Columbia to Charleston. We had 102 miles to go on the road, so I was starting to think it might have been a bad idea to plan on going there on a Friday. At about 12 miles in, we discovered what the problem was. A tractor-trailer was on its side down a six-foot embankment to the right. That couldn’t have been fun. Trey rambled on about how lucky the driver was that he hadn’t been in England because then he’d have been on the side that was smashed because they drive on the other side of the road. Because we laughed about our inability to understand what the heck he’d said, he provided a lengthy, hostile, red-faced, guttural explanation, which we still didn’t understand but decided we’d pretend we did so he’d calm down. (I just now asked him what he meant and he very calmly told me that, in England, the driver would have been sitting on the right side of the cab so when it fell over to the right it would have landed on the side he was sitting on.)
We got to Jen’s about the same time she did. Her apartment is great. While we relaxed, she went out and got stuff for dinner and then made us two pizzas and two chicken, pesto, cheese, and spinach Panini’s. She also had some ice-cold beers in the fridge and ice cream in the freezer.
We hung out and talked and watched TV to very late in the night. She gave us the two beds upstairs while she slept on the couch. I got the king-size bed that I had to share with Trey, but the bed was so big and he’s so small, I could barely see him on the other side, over there.
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