The following was copied and pasted from my trip journal.
Howdy All,
Its 4:30am on Saturday morning March 31st and we are in Ashland, Virginia. Im writing this quick report into my journal and will post it later, since I cant seem to get connected to the internet at our motel. If you are ever driving on I-95, and stop at exit 92, unless you have no other choice, avoid the Apple Garden Inn. OK, heres are trip so far.
We left home at 6:10pm last evening and headed south. I had Hazel call MR to see if her family had left. MR stated that they got on the road about 3:30pm, and were already in Maryland, traveling on I-95. I decided since it was later in the day, I would take I-95 as well. We were making good progress until we crossed over from Washington, DC into Virginia. We were about 90 north of Richmond, VA when we hit bumper to bumper traffic. It took us about 90 minutes to travel the next 17 miles, by this time I was kicking myself for not going down 13 like I usually do. The reason for the back up, there was a bad accident about 74 miles north of Richmond that involved at least 5 or 6 cars. We tried calling MR to make sure they were OK, and when we didnt get an answer on her cell, I was getting a little concerned.
MR called us a little before 11pm to let us know they were near mile marker 45 in Virginia and were looking for a place to stop for the night. At this time, we were only at mile marker 123 and I decided there was no way I was going to make it to meet up with them, so we pulled off I-95 at exit 92 around 11:30pm and I was in bed and asleep by midnight.
So, here I am wide awake, while my two sleeping beauties are snoring away in the bed, next to me. LOL!!!
Im hoping to make it in to Florida later tonight, but if not, we WILL be there sometime early Sunday.
Thats all for now
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Update: Saturday Evening March 31st
Left Ashland, VA at 6:15am after a quick bite of breakfast at McDonalds then drove through the day arriving in De Land, FL at 7:00pm.
We had a very nice ride today, only hit a few traffic snarls along the way. We stopped and filled our car up at exit 180 in NC at Pilot, gas was 2.58 per gallon. Stopped for lunch in Santee, SC (exit 98), then filled the car up at exit 53 in SC at Citgo for 2.45 a gallon. Gas here in De Land is 2.69 a gallon.
My mom was getting off work just as we were arriving in De Land this evening, so we met her at IHOP for dinner. My mom told us that we are having a Bar-B-Q tomorrow afternoon at my uncles place(he lives next door to my mom).
After my mom gets off the phone, Im going to connect my laptop and post this report., then I will be turning in as I only had 4 hours of sleep last night. Its is so nice and warm here this evening, shorts and t-s***** are on already, LOL!!!
Lord only knows how far behind I am on this thread
LOL!!! J
Thanks Diane for all your help!!!
Hope that you have an easier time of doing that than I did uploading to DS's Ipod shuffle today. I think that I worked on it for at least three hours. I couldn't remember how to save the file to the Itunes library. OY! It took PJ & I a couple hours to figure it out a month ago when I uploaded my IPOD. Of course after taking care of DS's....I updated mine with all the new songs that I had ripped from my favorite CDs. 
