Georgia on my Mind

Well, we arrived in Miami just 1 hour ago...... Yea, right. We are in Valdosta at the LaQuinta inn. The room is nice and they offer free liquor from 5-9pm!!! The weather is really nice. It is much less humid than St. Pete and I am looking forward to even less the further we go. It took about 4 hours to get here and we drove about 280 miles today. We left at 11am and was able to make it on only one tank of gas. We are getting about 14 miles to the tank right now. Hopefully it will continue. The scenery is very nice and the people are very friendly here. Dianne only had to stop at one rest area and I actually made the suggestion to stop. The van pulls the trailer pretty well. I am still getting used to driving with a trailer, but I am sure that I will be an expert by the time we get to Alaska.
I learned that either the speedometer is really off, or truckers, suvs, vans, cars, bikers, and old ladies in wheelchairs drive REALLY fast. I must have been doing 65 and was getting passed like I was standing still. I am starting to get a complex. The trailer doesn't have any weird tendencys like swaying at high speed or leaving the hitch. All the wireing works and I even have brake lights....... Dianne asked me where we are going to be tommorow, and I honestly have no idea. Is't kinda nice to not know where you are going to be. I will have to pull up the travel log that I created and figure out where (and in what state) we will be sleeping in. I do know that it is another La Quinta. At least I know we will be getting a decent breakfast for free again. Hopefully we will be on the road again tommorow by 10am. That way we will be at the next stop by 2-3pm (more like 3pm). Well, it's time for happy hour, so I will be going for now!!

Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they are not after you…

Sorry about this post. I wrote it several days ago, but have been too busy(lazy) to submit it. Hopefully it will be just as entertaining.

Well, in just 8 days we will be off to Alaska. I am being told lately that I am becoming more and more paranoid the closer it gets to the final day. Perhaps this is due to stress or anxiety – Who knows. I think I am starting to look for the little problems now that I really did not care about before. Things like making sure the car will run and we have enough food and water for the trip. You know the little things…. I have had a suspicion that the car was having some transmission problems. I figured that now would be a good time to get it checked out before we take everything we own and head off on a 6,000 mile trip. As it turns out, the transmission did have some issues. Like some really serious issues. It needed to be rebuilt. I suppose any other time I would pitch a fit and run around the house screaming, but not today. I figure it was better to have it fixed now than in northern Canada. What would have been worse is if it had broken down about half way up one of those really nice Canadian mountains. I could only imagine what kind of excitement that would cause me and wifey.
My current priorities are to get food, lotto (if I win I wouldn’t have to worry about the cost of the transmission…), beer, not necessarily in that order. We will be partaking in some delicious Chinese food tonight. The wife is totally unsure of what she wants to eat. I told her that it really didn’t matter, that she was going to be eating a cat in one form or another. She did not find it quite as humorous as I did. I on the other hand will be getting the same thing I always get – The house special lo mien with steamed dumplings. I think I am going to throw in some egg rolls just for fun. I figure that much food will last me at least a couple days. Since we now have no food left in the house this is a bonus. Not having to worry about where I am going to buy my next meal and all.