Saturday March 7, 2009

We got off after breakfast this morning at about 8:15. We gave big hugs to Sandy and Larry - we had a wonderful week visiting with them and now won't see them again until they come back to Mystic in the middle of April. It was a beautiful day to travel: 68 when we got up this morning and it got up to 80 for the high in Georgia and South Carolina. We decided not to stop for lunch and pushed through. There was much more traffic on the road than we had thought. There also must have been a motorcycle rally just north of Daytona Beach - there were hundreds of them on the road as well as trucks hauling 6 to 8 cycles in trailers. At the exit, there was a back up of about a half a mile to get off the highway! The other thing that I haven't written about in the blog is the large number of different license plates in Florida. Dave and I have seen about 50 different ones and Sandy Levine thinks there may be as many as 200. I assume they don't cost as much as the special ones in Connecticut. We finally stopped for the night in Rocky Mount, NC at 8:15. We have just come back from dinner at Denny's which is next door and will read for a short time before going to sleep. Unfortunately, we will lose an hour tonight, but we would like to get an early start tomorrow so as to get home before dark if possible.