Leavng McRae's (9/29-30/2015)

Tuesday -- Time to get back in travel mode for tomorrow.  I did a little cleaning in the RV, and Joe got the oil changed in the Explorer.  We seem to be in pretty good shape to pull out tomorrow.  After dinner, we had our nightly game of Hand and Foot, with the new cards again, and the guys won again.  Definitely time to leave here!

Wednesday -- Mike decided to fix us biscuits and sausage before we hit the road, but we were still able to get an early start (7:35).  We drove separately up to the gas station, where we fueled, got sodas, and hooked up the car.  We were on I-75 by 7:50, with lots of miles to go today.  It was misty-rainy, and when we got to the top of Monteagle, we hit some fog. 

But as we came down off the mountain, the fog was just in the valleys and we were good to go.  As we neared Chattanooga, we changed back to the Eastern time zone.  And I-75 dips into Georgia, then back in Tennessee, before we leave Tennessee behind for good.  So that was about 8:45 the first time into Georgia, then 9:05 the second time.  We hit Atlanta at 11:45 EST, staying with I-75 all the way through, rather than taking the bypass.  Some road construction and traffic slowed us down, but not too bad. 

Atlanta

Once we saw that Valdosta would be a good destination for the day, I made contact with our great-niece, Kayla Coulter, to see if we could visit with her.  Her husband, John, just got deployed this week so we will miss seeing him, but they are stationed at Moody Air Force base, so we really wanted to at least stop by.  After several texts, we made plans to meet her for breakfast in the morning.

We are camped at Hahira, Georgia, about 10 miles north of Valdosta.  After we got set up, we went for a drive, past the Air Force base, and past the Coulters' new home.  Even though Kayla was at work, we at least got to drive by and see their place -- very nice.  When we finally stopped for dinner, Joe had ordered a baked potato with his meal, and the waitress came back and said they were out of them, so he had to order something else.  When she brought the check, she said the manager had found out about the baked potato, and in fact they were not out of them, there were 2 in the drawer but the cook just didn't want to fix it, so they gave Joe a baked potato free, to take home with him.  He said he had never had a free baked potato before, and thought I should put that in the blog.

We drove 396 miles today, all interstate, but a lot of truck traffic.  We had one pretty good 5-minute shower, then the sun came out and it got hot and humid -- we can tell we are in the South.  We found gas today for $1.929, but the price seems to be creeping up the further south we get. 

We should be holding our grandson tomorrow night -- looking forward to that!