Using the GPS as our guide, once again we hit the road again, and headed West for the first time. With a car stuffed full of cookies from Dan’s grandmother, we rolled out of North Carolina headed for Tallahassee, Florida. During our day of recuperation we replaced a few things that were lost or broken when the van was vandalized. I’ve become addicted to the cigarette lighter power adaptor in the van, so I bought a replacement to use and keep for my future travels. The window of the van has been fixed, but no longer rolls down, which will be unfortunate going though the southern part of the country with no air conditioning.

I was pretty tired, so I don’t remember much of the Carolinas as we drove through them. It all passed in a green blur as I nodded off in the passenger’s seat. I took the helm for the second shift and got to experience another amazing scenic drive. Outdone only by the Utah sunrise highway, the second best drive of the trip was going through the back roads of Georgia. Because we were cutting straight down to Tallahasse, instead of taking the larger coastal highways, we went on little two lane interstates through small towns and farms. It was a gorgeous scenic drive with hilly roads rising and falling between quaint towns.

I personally have little desire to move to the South, but driving through those towns I fell in love with the quaint country villages a little bit. There is so much to love in America, and I want to see it all. Today was another one of those days I wish we could have slowed down. I wish I could have stopped and explored Long Lonely Drive or bought some of Ned’s Flowers (“just knock, two doors down”). It is all just flying by so fast.