On February 21st 2006 I (Gambler)
made a solo 3 day trip to Weber City Virginia
to watch my God Father's Master Mason Degree.
On the way up I went to Dublin, Georgia to visit
my grandfather. The trip to dublin was uneventfull
but the visit was nice. I left Dublin about 4:00
PM and drove to Macon where I got on I-75 and
headed north. I turned on the XM Radio to the
Atlanta Traffic station and found out that there
was an accident on the bypass so I went on through
Atlanta on 75. I ran into a traffic jam anyway
so tried going up to Peachtree street and get
around the accident. That was a fiasco, lets just
say that someone in Atlanta needs to update the
GPS gods and tell them that they have new roads
because there were roads on the GPS that were
not on the ground and vice versa. I finally got
out of Atlanta at about 1 AM. I drove until I
started getting sleepy somewhere in Tennessee.
I started looking for a rest stop and finally
gave up when I hit Rice City at 4 AM. I checked
into the Rice Hotel, called Twister to let her
know I was off the road and hit the sack. Being
from Florida I am not used to the cold up there.
When I woke up in the morning it was 17° outside.
I remote started the HHR while I got packed up
and got back on the road in a nice warm HHR. Much
to my dismay, the next turn on the Interstate
was a rest area. Looking back, I would have hated
to sleep in the car with it that cold so I guess
it was a good thing. I pulled into Weber City
at about noon. After some visiting we went to
the Masonic Lodge for the Degree. We went back
to my godfathers house afterwords and slept for
the night.
I woke up about 6 AM the next
morning. I went ahead and remote started the HHR
so it would warm up while I had breakfast because
it was 19° this morning. I hit the road about
6:30 and headed home. Somehow I made it through
Atlanta in twenty two minutes this time. I was
just going with traffic but I know at one time
I was doing over 100 MPH. The return drive, unlike
the drive up only took 7 hours and 50 minutes.
I walked into Twisters office and surprised the
heck out of her by being home so early.
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