NORTH, HERE WE COME!

NORTH, HERE WE COME!

Hampton Inn, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Sunny, 70s F

After another quick look at the Breckinridge Park Model home, we said our goodbyes to Scorchy and Mary Lou and off we went about 8:30 a.m.  We took a detour to a showroom for RVs and other park homes along Rt. 301 just to do a little research. We already found out that our friends in Charleston were in California and the Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden in Bishopville was only open till 4 p.m. on Saturday, closed on Sunday, so this would be a travel day.

We used Randy’s new travel app, Waze, and it showed us how to avoid big traffic logjams along the Interstates. Bravely we got off the highway twice and took the new bypass route Waze suggested. One time we could even see traffic completely stopped for 5 miles on I-95 while we traveled parallel to it.

By 7 p.m. we stopped in Fayetteville for the night. It is so amazing to travel now with cell phones, GPS, and apps like Hilton, Marriott, Trip Advisor, Gas Buddy, and Waze, and more. With two phones I can look up something on one and call on the other.

We are about 4 ½ hours from Williamsburg, our destination tomorrow. Coleen texted me a photo of B2 at her first gymnastics practice meet (so professional looking), Friend M texted me about the weather in Erie, Friend MJ told me about her impending trip to Florida, and all suggested we either stay in Florida or delay our return! By the time we get to Erie on Wednesday if all goes well, it will be single digit temperature. Oh no! The upside: we see our family and friends again!!!!!!!

I kept forgetting to mention that while we were in the Dade City area we saw whole orchards of oranges being razed---there is a mite invading the trees and destroying the citrus farming.