Wow what a day this has been! I got up at 8:30 am (oh-dark-thirty by my usual standards!) to shower and pack ... while my husband and son went grocery shopping (son stayed home for this trip). My sweetie had set the goal of being on the road south by 10 am and we WERE!! Trust me, that counts as a minor miracle. :)
We are southward bound, aiming for a week at the beach in Ft Myers, FL. The worst traffic of the whole trip is at the very beginning, between Baltimore and Richmond. :P I've done a lot of long-distance driving, enough to consider myself adept at it, and I don't generally mind it.
For some reason, my nerves have been all a-jangle today. I can't remember so many near-collisions and close calls! Maybe going north/south is fundamentally different than east/west? I've driven from Baltimore to Kansas City and back ... and to Indianapolis and back just in the first half of this year. Just don't recall so much disparity between fast and slow traffic as we have seen today.
Speed limits have been 70 mph most of the trip, about the same as going west on Interstate 70 (we're on I95 now). We've passed at least two rattletrap pickups going 40 and the bulk of the traffic is moving around 80 mph. Nerve wracking differences!
I love the names of places we have passed - especially the rivers: Rappahannock, Tar, Lumbee, Neuse, Santee, Tillifinny, Camahee, Whatacootchie ... Wonderful. :) Could not make up better ones!
It takes eight hours to Myrtle Beach, ten hours to Charleston, twelve to Savannah. I feel like entire chapters of American history are rolling under our wheels. :)
Have you seen that Barbara Brackman has started a blog for War of 1812 quilt blocks and history, similar to her Civil War blog? Ought to be great reading!
:) Linda
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