Yep, I took travel notes this time! This is so late, but I'm posting anyway. Our Disney Halloween 2010 roadtrip timeline report:
On 10/29/10...
7:17pm - Left home! The 3 year old who was 2 years old back then was out like a light about 10 minutes after we loaded her into the car seat. Woo hoo!
8pm - Before exit 9A on the NJ Turnpike there was a paint truck doing road work out and plus there was an accident way up ahead so traffic was backed up.
8:12pm - Finally reached the very sad 5 car accident.
10:04pm - Reached last exit on NJ Turnpike to DE. Toll cost us $7.35. Lots of traffic because we don't have EZ Pass. We always say we're going to get the EZ Pass, but we always forget to do it.
10:21pm - A mile from exit 1A-1B Newark, DE - Middletown, DE. Toll cost us $3.00.
10:37pm - Reached Newark, DE toll plaza and paid $4.00...my notes are confusing me. Did we pay 3 or 4 bucks?? Hmmmmm.
11:06pm - Made it to Maryland House! Yay! Family tradition and we stop here no matter what's going on to visit and meet with other Disney Roadtrippers. There were none...look at the time Amirah! We usually get to MH around 3pm, but we chose to leave at night this time to avoid traffic...haha jokes on us because we sat in A LOT of traffic anyway. On a better note, I got to have a beloved Roy Rogers cheeseburger and we love those! We are health nuts (weren't always), but we have to have that nasty burger every time. This is the only time we get to see a Roy Rogers.
11:43pm - Left Maryland House with Starbucks and Roy Rogers. I ordered a lightly sweetened iced green tea and had my cheeseburger in hand. We were down to 3/4 of a tank so we filled up and paid $36.76.
10/30/10...
12:09am - Reached Fort McHenry tunnel toll.
3:17am - Hit 400 mi. mark on the speedometer. Cruisin' through Virginia.
4:01am - Crossed into North Carolina. Finally. Took a stp at a rest stop a few miles back and picked some of the "healthy" items on the menu from McDonald's to snack on and I'm not sure why we did this because we had tons of snack in the cooler in the car.
5:59am - Gas stop because we were mighty low. Total came to $41.04 to fill up. I'm not sure if Marathon Gas is a big company, but that's what we put into our tank at $2.75 per gallon. 29 miles to Lumberton, NC and 31 miles to South of the Border! Woo! We drove 95 south through NC alone like pitch black alone no cars in front or behind us or on the other side. Spookular!!!! Glad we didn't have to make any gas stops because we would have had to go off road. Eeeek! Remember this is out first time driving through the night.
6:31am - Arrived at South of the Border. Closed of course, but we drove through it and hti the restrooms. Restrooms were old and stinky as usual, but appeared to be kept cleaned on a regular basis.
8:13am - 100 miles to Savannah!!!!
8:49am - Passed the sign for the exit 42 to Yemassee, SC and that's my grandparents on my mom's side place of origin. Old Country South Carolina was what it was referred to back in the late 1800s. It great to see it again!
9:10am - Stopped at the Waffle House for breakfast. I ordered grits (haven't had grits in a long long time), eggs and pork bacon (omg haven't eaten bacon in a very long time)...hey were on vacation! We were right on the border of SC and GA. Back on the road at about 9:29am.
9:44am - Crossed Savannah River into Georgia.
10:25am - Traffic started at mile marker #60. The right lane was closed and there was massive road work going on (cones, truck lights, huge machines, etc.) - but no road work in progress. Lots of State Troopers so we were at snail pace at 45 mph for most of our time in GA. And while we were going through GA it started getting HOT. Wind in our hairs...wooooo hooooo! That's the weather we were looking for baby!!! Took us to get to GA to get it.
11:21am - Crossed into Florida!!!! Florida troopers were on the prowl too.
12:02pm - Gas stop in Jacksonville and it was so good to be back in Jacksonville. I love the freeway. Awesomeness. Gas cost us $43.50 to fill up the tank at $3.09 per gallon.
1:14pm - Entered into exit 260b to Rt. I4...we're getting close now! This was the longest ride of our lives for some reason. Everybody was ready to get out of the car and party at this point, but we had to get to destination Marriot Harbour Lake first.
2:05pm - Finally we reached exit 72 after seeing Disney and other attraction signs. We sorta wished we had chosen to stay down on Rt. 192 since we always do, but we decided to make a change this time and stay around the Sea World area so that's what we did.
3:02pm - WE'RE IN THE POOL!!!!! After checking in, grabbing our Owner's Locker (pure love), shimmying to shower and bringing all of our stuff into the villa we were finally pool bound. So relaxing!!!
The End!!!
but DH thinks its about 59 miles from St Pete Beach to Orlando. If you have a little wiggle room in your schedule, then I'd do it. While LOVE WDW, I really like the beach as well... I am glad we are anle to get both in this trip! Good luck in whatever you decide to do! 
