Not much to say here...those reptiles were alive and slithering
Sad to leave the new-found friends--homesick young people who have been Phenomenal being away from their Moms and Dads for 10-20 days...
So we lit out of St Simons like a bat out of...you get the idea.
But we were so enamored with the idea that we should get everyone home---that we forgot we were on a "Road Trip"and drove way too much to get to Birmingham by dinner time. We passed Plains and Americus Georgia, of Jimmy Carter fame---passed the Civil War Naval Museum, Fort Benning. Didn't stop to admire the miles...and miles...and miles of rail cars we saw, apparently "in storage" along the highway, camouflaged by thick vines and trees...Really: coal cars, tank cars, flat bed and, later, some unidentifiable cars...just quietly "there". Like the Liberty ships mothballed near San Francisco in the Carquinez straits ( I DON't think I spelled that correctly). There were very few rest stops in these parts. The children were quiet in the back seat listening to Disney Channel, and we just drove.
Lord there is an abundance of trees in Georgia and Alabama and single wide trailers are prominent as neighborhoods.
Don't know what crops we saw---peanuts? pecans? Annal household income here (thank you, google) is $25K.
We arrived at our Holiday Inn Express 500 miles later, on schedule, at 6:30---tired and cranky.
Fortunately we met Sean and Chrissie at a local BBQ restaurant and they were so happy to retrieve their firstborn that we all perked up.
Victoria was clearly the star the girls focused on, making space at "their" side of the table for her. After dinner we even went to replace the bathing suit left behind at Sea Palms (I'm sure they will mail it to us)
We had now driven 2700 miles since June 4....two days til home.
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