Off to Florida

November 26, 2007
Lake Park, GA

Well, we’re back on the road again…

Sunday was a cold and gray day in Albertville. We stopped by to see Mom in the morning, and Rick made turkey soup for lunch. After lunch, Alyson left for school in Mobile and we headed out as well. We had made arrangements to stop at our friends, Linda and Wendell, in Birmingham. It only took a couple of hours to get there, so we were able to enjoy the afternoon and have dinner with them. We parked the coach in their driveway (a tight fit but manageable), and were all set to leave in the morning.

We left Birmingham just before 10:00 AM, and found our way through some back roads to I-20. Outside Atlanta, we used the I-285 bypass to I-75 South, and were congratulating ourselves on not getting bogged down in traffic. The last time we passed through that way, in early June, we got caught for over 2 hours on I-20 just before I-285 due to an accident. Of course, we were premature in congratulating ourselves, as we soon ran into a severe slowdown on I-75 well south of Atlanta. Fortunately, it didn’t last too long and we were cruising at 60.5 MPH again in about 20 minutes.

We had rain most of the day, some light and some heavy. I thought it was going to clear in the late afternoon, and there ended up being an absolutely beautiful sunset as we got to South Georgia. Unfortunately, as soon as the sun went down, the rain came back. It rained pretty hard as we arrived at our overnight stop, a Flying J truck stop. We filled up and parked with the other RVs for the night. There are quite a few more RVs on the road this week. All the way East from Arizona, we commented on how few RVs and trucks there were in the rest areas and travel plazas. It must have been a pre-holiday lull, because traffic is way up this week.

We had one little problem today. Somewhere along the highway, the electrical connection for the lights on the Range Rover came unplugged. I noticed that the lights on the car weren’t working in the rear-view camera, so I checked at our next rest stop. Of course, the connection was completely gone from rubbing on the ground for however long. I picked up a new plug in the Flying J store, and I’ll temporarily wire it in tomorrow morning before we leave.