For 2,000+ mile round-trip drivers only!

[BC1836]

One more wakeup and we hit the road...for home.
We filled up at WDW Hess ($2.59 for regular) this afternoon.
All the best.

 

[MinMouse]

One more wakeup and we hit the road...for home.
We filled up at WDW Hess ($2.59 for regular) this afternoon.
All the best.

Safe travels BC!

 

[BC1836]

Safe travels BC!

The morning of our departure for home has finally arrived. Our best trip ever makes us long for our next trip to WDW.

Like others, we read about WDW travels on the DISboards, and then our trip finally arrives. But in what seems like the blink of an eye, our stay is over. As this reply is being typed, the cloudless sky over Seven Seas Lagoon illuminates our room and the most magical of all music plays on Channel 19. Alas, 'tis time to part. Yet, upon our arrival home, our next countdown begins.

So thanks, MinMouse, for your kind travel "wishes."

All the best to all on this thread, the folks who know that the journey is also part of the WDW experience.

 

[caitlinsdad]

The morning of our departure for home has finally arrived. Our best trip ever makes us long for our next trip to WDW.

Like others, we read about WDW travels on the DISboards, and then our trip finally arrives. But in what seems like the blink of an eye, our stay is over. As this reply is being typed, the cloudless sky over Seven Seas Lagoon illuminates our room and the most magical of all music plays on Channel 19. Alas, 'tis time to part. Yet, upon our arrival home, our next countdown begins.

So thanks, MinMouse, for your kind travel "wishes."

All the best to all on this thread, the folks who know that the journey is also part of the WDW experience.

Safe trip

 

[loveysbydesign]

The morning of our departure for home has finally arrived. Our best trip ever makes us long for our next trip to WDW.

Like others, we read about WDW travels on the DISboards, and then our trip finally arrives. But in what seems like the blink of an eye, our stay is over. As this reply is being typed, the cloudless sky over Seven Seas Lagoon illuminates our room and the most magical of all music plays on Channel 19. Alas, 'tis time to part. Yet, upon our arrival home, our next countdown begins.

So thanks, MinMouse, for your kind travel "wishes."

All the best to all on this thread, the folks who know that the journey is also part of the WDW experience.

Have a safe trip home!

 

[BC1836]

Thanks for all the well wishes on our journey home.
Now then, the Holiday Inn Express that we just checked into after 12 hours and 690 miles is missing a white chocolate Mickey. And where's Channel 19 with the great Disney music? And we can't see the monorail from our window; it actually looks like I-95! No turn-down service either. I bet we won't be able to see the Wishes fireworks at 10 p.m. Oh well.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

We are driving from Houston and my brother is driving from Ft Worth (Burleson). If you happen to stay the night somewhere off I-10 on the way back home, would you mind cluing me in. I just cannot seem to find a place. HELP!!! We are thinking about somewhere in Alabama...Mobile?

On our way to WDW we are driving most of the way the first day and staying in Tallahassee. This way we only have about four hours left to drive.

i live in south Mobile, I would check out something around exit 38, its on the east side of mobile, it's a newly developed area with plenty of places to eat and all the hotels were built less than 4-5 years ago. from there you are probably looking at 6-7 hrs drive to WDW
Paul

 

[loveysbydesign]

Thanks for all the well wishes on our journey home.
Now then, the Holiday Inn Express that we just checked into after 12 hours and 690 miles is missing a white chocolate Mickey. And where's Channel 19 with the great Disney music? And we can't see the monorail from our window; it actually looks like I-95! No turn-down service either. I bet we won't be able to see the Wishes fireworks at 10 p.m. Oh well.

 

[Marshay]

Thanks for all the well wishes on our journey home.
Now then, the Holiday Inn Express that we just checked into after 12 hours and 690 miles is missing a white chocolate Mickey. And where's Channel 19 with the great Disney music? And we can't see the monorail from our window; it actually looks like I-95! No turn-down service either. I bet we won't be able to see the Wishes fireworks at 10 p.m. Oh well.

What a let down -- ask for your money back!!

 

[chipper10]

We will be driving through Atlanta. Will 2pm on a Friday in mid-Auguust be a bad time to head through? Mapquest says that it will take 9 hours from our house to reach Atlanta. We plan on leaving the STL area around 5am-ish. So we will reach Atlanta around 2-3pm. I don't know if we would just be better off not leaving the house until 8-9am or just going early. I have a feeling DH and I will be too excited to sleep (we usually are) and DS won't know where we are going until the next day.

I know we are going to be sure to stop a little bit before driving through to give DS a bathroom break. He's not the best yet at being able to hold it for a long period of time.

 

[BC1836]

To be sure, there's no place like home...but we miss WDW already!
We arrived home today at 5:16 p.m. after an overnighter in Emporia, VA.

Total round-trip miles: 2,278 (and that includes 119 miles in WDW!).

The only traffic of significance we encountered was a 2 mile crawl entering the MD toll plaza (mm #93).

Cheapest gas: $2.36 at Pilot in SC.

All the best to the best thread members on the DISboards: you, the 2,000+ mile round-trip drivers only folks!

 

[ShhhQ]

We will be driving through Atlanta. Will 2pm on a Friday in mid-Auguust be a bad time to head through? Mapquest says that it will take 9 hours from our house to reach Atlanta. We plan on leaving the STL area around 5am-ish. So we will reach Atlanta around 2-3pm. I don't know if we would just be better off not leaving the house until 8-9am or just going early. I have a feeling DH and I will be too excited to sleep (we usually are) and DS won't know where we are going until the next day.

I know we are going to be sure to stop a little bit before driving through to give DS a bathroom break. He's not the best yet at being able to hold it for a long period of time.

A few years ago, we stopped at the Georgia welcome center and was asking for advice about lunch... we also got some great advice about Atlanta... she warned us to make sure we had got past Altanta by 3pm to avoid the start of rush hour traffiic!

 

[monymony3471]

We just found out that DH can use his Delta miles for free hotel stays on our drive down! So no brainer, we are leaving a night earlier to break up the drive a bit more.

I think I decided to make our first stop in Chattanooga TN!

I love when things come together like that.

back BC, I too cannot believe its already over

 

[caitlinsdad]

Just started making our travel route from CT to WDW.
Another trip to see the mouse. Yea 7 days

My take a longer route and take the Bay Bridge tunnel instead of all I95.
Spend a day in Savanna Ga too.

Trip back home normally is 95 -i26 -i77 -i81 -i84 - rt 7

 

[TINKERIFIC]

i live in south Mobile, I would check out something around exit 38, its on the east side of mobile, it's a newly developed area with plenty of places to eat and all the hotels were built less than 4-5 years ago. from there you are probably looking at 6-7 hrs drive to WDW
Paul

Thanks a lot! I did a quick google and found quite a bit along I-10 east of the bay around Daphne or at least a lot of the names where such and such hotel Mobile/Daphne.

We are driving in from Houston and my brother is driving in from Ft Worth. On our way in to WDW we are staying in Tallahassee, but on our way back home we plan on staying in Mobile.

 

[kidd_freeper]

Anyone ever tried driving the backroads through Central Virginia and Central North Carolina?

=> I tried using Google maps to get directions from Connecticut to WDW. The fastest route offered was, of course I-95, going though the Washington DC area (which has its problems with traffic and construction).

But Google Maps offers an alternate route that skips the Baltimore/DC area altogether. It goes I78, then I81 (as many have suggested here).

*** But in Staunton, VA, Google Maps suggest taking I-64 for a short while, then taking US-29 south through Virginia and North Carolina. This skirts around Lynchburg and Danville, VA, then Greensboro, NC

There seems to be few or no lights on this road, it is mostly two lanes in both directions and the speed limit is 55mph. Seems like a beautiful road. And it is only 40 minutes longer than taking I95 all the way.

Anyone ever driven this route, or live in these areas?

 

[dvczerfs]

Anyone ever tried driving the backroads through Central Virginia and Central North Carolina?

=> I tried using Google maps to get directions from Connecticut to WDW. The fastest route offered was, of course I-95, going though the Washington DC area (which has its problems with traffic and construction).

But Google Maps offers an alternate route that skips the Baltimore/DC area altogether. It goes I78, then I81 (as many have suggested here).

*** But in Staunton, VA, Google Maps suggest taking I-64 for a short while, then taking US-29 south through Virginia and North Carolina. This skirts around Lynchburg and Danville, VA, then Greensboro, NC

There seems to be few or no lights on this road, it is mostly two lanes in both directions and the speed limit is 55mph. Seems like a beautiful road. And it is only 40 minutes longer than taking I95 all the way.

Anyone ever driven this route, or live in these areas?

ive never gone that way but i do use 78-81-66-17-95. 17 is 2 lanes each way, most of it 55mph and you hit 95 at exit 133 above richmond. we hit exit 133 around 2-2:30 pm during the week so we dont hit rush hours thru richmond. i wont use that way in the summer on sat., 95 can get a bit jammed.also, remember google and map quest are assuming you drive the speed limit and theres no traffic.

 

[loveysbydesign]

HELP!!!!
When I chart our directions out on googlemaps it has us avoiding taking 95 through Jacksonville...it shows us going 9A S and then picking 95 up again after Jacksonville...is this a good route or should we take 95 through Jacksonville?

 

[Kinziepoohsmom]

We will be driving for the first time leaving from MA on Friday August 20th around 4pm and hope to drive as far as possible on that first day/night. We plan to make it to WDW late Saturday night with only one night in hotel on both the drive down and back. Hope this goes OK because we plan to do it all over again in October!

 

[nytimez]

HELP!!!!
When I chart our directions out on googlemaps it has us avoiding taking 95 through Jacksonville...it shows us going 9A S and then picking 95 up again after Jacksonville...is this a good route or should we take 95 through Jacksonville?

If I remember correctly, that's part of the extension that loops around Jacksonville, so you don't have to drive through the city. It's fine. I think you could also take 295 and go around the city on the other side, but I think the 9A side is shorter (And I think there was construction on 295 at I-10 last time i was there).