dont go 78 to 84!!!! its 78-81!!! 
pam trust me. you wont need the gps. you get out towards harrisburg, 78 has 4 lanes, 2 go to 81 north and 2 go to 81 south. go 81 south. theres no way you can get off 81 south unless you try. you will be on 81 a long time and i77 interchange is out in the middle of know were!! you cant miss it,make a wrong turn or anything. very simple. theres just no other interstate to get on. 
At this point, I just need to know if they will pay for it. Warranty pays = we go...warranty doesn't pay = no vacation for two years. Best case is we cram the five of us into DW's Escape for the 2100 mile round trip. Should be pleasant.
Nope, never worked at the Disney Store. I often thought of doing it part time for the holidays, but my kids sports schedules were a priority. Now that they are old enough to drive, maybe I will do it this Christmas.
i dont drink or eat that much on the road to start with. but if i drank coffee, i would need a bottle, the rest stops just arnt close enough for that.
when i start, i can can go 4 hours straight, than if you stop evey two hours or so and make them quick, you will hit jacksonville around 6-6:30pm. as long as you dont stop for meals for an hour and as long as you donr hit major traffic. i never have a problem staying awake for the trip down, im to cranked up to get there.
Just back at 1:30 am today. We drove down on Friday of Memorial Day Weekend and took the 22-78-81-77-26-95 route. It was a pleasant drive. Lots of tractor trailers, but very few cars. Considering it was a holiday weekend the travel went really well. We did stop at a roadside rest (with night time security) to sleep for a couple of hours. We had left at 9:30 pm Friday and got to Melbourne, FL around 7:30 pm Saturday. When we got off the DCL cruise we headed up to Georgia to Forrest Hill Resorts. If you like it rustic this is just a few steps up from camping. We stayed in a Wilderness Lodge which is 4 attached rooms with seperate enterances with a mini kitchen and a deck off the back. No Housekeeping and plenty of bugs and spiders (DH took care of them, catching them and putting them outside.) We used to camp, but I prefer a hotel now. This was like taking a step backwards after the cruise. It really wasn't terrible, just not DCL. We went 2 days to Gold N Gem Grubbin, a place someone on this thread had talked about. We had fun the first day finding gems in our $60 bucket of dirt. The second day we panned for gold in the creek. We didn't find any gold, but did find a few more gems to add to our collection. Our GPS got us around and on the day we left it took us to 85 and then 77-81-78-22 home. When I Google mapped to get home it took me around to 95 and I had modified my map to take 85. Seems my GPS has ESP.
welcome home!!! at least its getting warm again here. glad you had a good time, bugs and all. i take my gps because its mounted to the dash and it makes me look like a tourest. i thought about you monday, i had to go to keystone inst. on catty road across from the airport. i said, did you ever see mice in the swamp? there for snakes. she flipped, she said there are snakes!!!! i said thats why the only mouse you see is a big one with pants, the rest, the snakes eat. i told her, your in a swamp. the entire 43 square mile wdw is one big swamp land. there are snakes, gators, bugs. now we have to get a room at least on the second floor.
sounds like you are going to be there with a couple of us. if your intrested in meeting up to say hi, just pm me and ill give you my cell number. sharon and i met up this past december, dont take alot of time, other than texting to find each other) just to say hi.
T minus ninety hours until we leave for Florida!!!!....maybe. STILL waiting to hear about my car, the one big enough to easily fit the family of five. Found out last week that it needed major engine work. Dealership has now been working with the warranty company for six days trying to figure out if the warranty will cover it.
just make sure nobody has baked beans tonight for diner! could be a long ride!
T Minus 1 hour before we hit the road..... woo hoo!!!
Can't wait to escape the heat here in Chicago!
T Minus 1 hour before we hit the road..... woo hoo!!!
Can't wait to escape the heat here in Chicago!
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