Thanks for the great report! How was the drive back? Did you miss the bad weather?
Thank you grantclaire and all others for your compliments. I can't spin an interesting story so I let the pictures do the talking.
The drive back was better than the drive there
, for me. Driving down sucked the life out of me for some reason, it didn't last year so I don't know what changed.
We hit some snowstorms in the Virginia's late Friday night. I don't mind driving in it so it was no big deal, plus we had the truck which I am way more comfortable driving in bad weather. US 19 was the worst part at times visiblity maybe 100ft and going down the hills on the north part of that was interesting to say the least. That part is very empty of anything. All I could think was if I wiped out I would hear the sound of banjo's and some dude with a hunting rifle would pop out of the bush to see what's going on.
The weirdest part was you would go from hardly being able to see to totally clear and back in the space of a few miles. I actually love driving the Virginia's and North Carolina part of the trip through the mountains, it keeps you on your toes and the miles seem to fly by. The parts above and below that are mind numbing, set the cruise and try and stay awake.
There was a rolled over tractor trailer on the south bound side of 77 or 79 ( can't remember off the top of my head) in the Virginia's that night, blocking the highway and backing up the other side for 10 miles. From what I could see he lost it coming down a hill in a set of S bends, probably going too fast and put her on her passenger side. I drive a Tri-axle dump truck once and a while, so I have an idea what driving a big truck feels like. Some of the guys down there are nuts and I'm surprized more of them don't end up on there sides.
The trip on Sat. was uneventful. We had stopped at The Knights Inn in Bridgeville PA the night before. I wanted to stop at the Holiday Inn up the street but Noooooo the boss said it was too much. A couple of times a year I actually am right about something and this was one of them.
This place was interesting for the lack of a better word, in need of a remodeling first came to mind.
So after Amy stripped the bed checking for ????????? I was finally able to go to sleep. After all those klm's I was almost in an accident on the 407 near Kennedy Rd. I was minding my own business doing 115klm in the middle lane, I was coming up on a car in the right lane. It started to drift into my lane just as I am starting to pass. No big deal right, wrong, at that moment in time there was someone passing me on the left and a guy right up my butt. I couldn't go left and I couldn't slam on the brakes, thankfully they noticed the big black chunk of steel getting closer and closer to their window while using their CrackBerry
. Wouldn't that figure, after all those klm's getting into an accident an half an hour from home.
