When boredom sets in!!

[jennifer293]

We drove to Disney on July 14th and it is was a 9.5 hour drive there for us this time. Since we had just bought our camper we of course noticed them on the road more than we did before. Well DH made the comment of how many campers we had seen in GA so I said, " Once we hit the FL state line we will see how many we see until we get to Disney"..He said Ok because that meant I had to stay awake and count and talk to him...LOL

From the FL line to Pop Century we counted 215 campers and motorhomes!!!

Talk about BORED!!!! It really did make time go by faster though!!

 

[ynottony99]

Great Scott!!!!!!!! If my calculations are correct, that is approximately 1 per mile

 

[laceemouse]

Wow, campers must be "in"!!!!! I wish we had such a short drive to WDW .

 

[seven dwarfs]

Wow that is a lot! I might try this game with the kids. They would like it. I notice more and more camper myself! Some of the rates around where I live are going up and up. Supply and demand

 

[minkydog]

Shhh. don't tell my husband! I am a World Champion sleeper--put me in a car and I'm out in 20 min. I can sleep all the way from Atlanta to Florida, eat lunch, and sleep through to WDW and still sleep that night Drives DH crazy.

 

[jennifer293]

We left her at 5 am and by 7 am I was OUT like a light..I think I slept for about 1 1/2 hours and then we made the stop at Hardee's to get a biscuit. After that I stayed awake till we got to Disney at 2:30 pm. We drive a Ford Expedition and it has a third row seat that I normally sleep in..Well MR. SMARTY PANTS decided he was gonna take that seat out to allow more room for luggage.. I still slept!!

I bet you if we had started counting in GA there would have been way over 500..there were way more in GA it seemed like which is the reason we started counting in the first place.

 

[james15]

Try this the week after christmas.Makes one wonder who is left in the snow states to keep every thing going.We play the license plate game every time you see a plate you mark the state.well last December the state of Ohio won in a land slide lol.I know between chattonoga Tenn and the Fla boarder we counted over 500 i slept from valdosta on so i cant recall the final tally.

 

[F4disneyfan]

Our game with the kids is the liscence plate game we try to see how many plates from Ontario we see while driving down then we go by the states they love it and it really passes the time quickly.

 

[HeatherPage]

How cool! My son and I did that very thing today after picking him up from preschool (except he was saying everything was an RV - pickup's, compact cars, empty fields...) oh well

 

[jennifer293]

Try this the week after christmas.Makes one wonder who is left in the snow states to keep every thing going.We play the license plate game every time you see a plate you mark the state.well last December the state of Ohio won in a land slide lol.I know between chattonoga Tenn and the Fla boarder we counted over 500 i slept from valdosta on so i cant recall the final tally.

Are you from Chattanooga??? We live in Cleveland!!!

 

[james15]

No we leave sw missouri after work usually and drive to chattonoga and get a room.Makes the 2 days drive much easier if we leave on a non work day we drive it strait threw.

 

[F4disneyfan]

How do you folks split your drive up? We do it like this.

2474KM total drive distance

Start on Friday night after dinner leave around 7PM
Drive till we reach the GA welcome centre on I-75 stop for breakfast and get the kids dressed and let them eat breakfast and run around for an hour or so.

Back in the van drive to Macon GA and stop at the rest stop to eat lunch and let the kids run around for an hour or so again.

Drive to Valdosta GA and stop for the night we arrive in Valdosta around 3 in the afternoon that way the kids don't have to stay in the car any longer and can sleep in a real bed for the night.

Drive starts with me driving the entire night time leg from 7PM to 7AM then I sleep from teh GA welcome centre to Atlanta and wake up at that point the wife drives from GA welcome centre to Macon rest stop then I drive from there to Valdosta. Next day I drive from Valdosta to Disney.

 

[james15]

its about 17hrs we leave about 6 pm this allows us to go threw Nashville and Atlanta in the over night hours witch means light traffic.!7 hrs is not bad has long has my wife and i both are off work and both well rested if we work the day we leave we stay in chattonoga.The kids sleep through the over night hours makes for a peacefull drive.Atlanta to Valdosta is the part of the trip that the sun starting to come up got to be carefull easy to get tired.Once i see thoose first palm trees i get my second wind and the rest of the drive seems pretty quick.My wife and i always tell the kids when we get to the resort where going to rest the rest of the day but it never works that way once you get immersed in the disney magic that tired feeling goes away.My wife and i have driven cross country for many years and i dont encourage others to drive that many hours straight threw.We both sleep quite abit the day before. Are one rule is where both awake the whole trip and about every 300 miles we switch off and give the other one a chance to relax and rest there eyes.

 

[F4disneyfan]

its about 17hrs we leave about 6 pm this allows us to go threw Nashville and Atlanta in the over night hours witch means light traffic.!7 hrs is not bad has long has my wife and i both are off work and both well rested if we work the day we leave we stay in chattonoga.The kids sleep through the over night hours makes for a peacefull drive.Atlanta to Valdosta is the part of the trip that the sun starting to come up got to be carefull easy to get tired.Once i see thoose first palm trees i get my second wind and the rest of the drive seems pretty quick.My wife and i always tell the kids when we get to the resort where going to rest the rest of the day but it never works that way once you get immersed in the disney magic that tired feeling goes away.My wife and i have driven cross country for many years and i dont encourage others to drive that many hours straight threw.We both sleep quite abit the day before. Are one rule is where both awake the whole trip and about every 300 miles we switch off and give the other one a chance to relax and rest there eyes.

Ya I work 3-11's mon-Friday so I always take the Friday off but I will work ont eh Thursday night I generally do not sleep much anyhow only about 3-3.5 hours a night I go to bed around 3-3:30 in the AM and I get up with the kids at 6:30 every morning. I am a night owl so I let my wife sleep through the night during the drive then she drives first thing in teh AM while I grab a couple hours of sleep in the van last May we drove it straight through I drove all night my wife drove from the usual spot till Macon then I drove the rest of the drive to WDW.

 

[jennifer293]

My DH refuses to let me drive any part of it. I am willing to drive anywhere but through ATL..I hate the traffic there it scares the (you know what) out of me!!!

You are right about getting the second wind while at Disney. We were there for 10 days and only rested when we were sleeping at night which was about 7 hours or so and never really got tired while we were there but as soon as we walked in the door of our house we all dropped like flies. It has been since the 23rd of July since we returned and I still feel tired..