December 6 - Finally leaving Columbia, South Carolina

Leaving Columbia we passed 2 accidents on the highway before we were on the road for an hour, traffic was backed up for miles.  The funny thing is they were nearly across the highway from each other, one coming and one going.  It is not against the law to talk on your cell phone here and let me tell you, everyone is on the phone.  Everyone also tailgate, and I'm not talking about the parties.  Oh, I guess I should say that the majority of people who watch college football have tailgate parties, it is a really big thing here.  There is such a big following, the RV parks are filled with people coming to support their teams.

The weather in Columbia was 14 degrees, cooler than it has been but it was 21 when we reached Georgia. 

We came upon the third accident just outside of Savannah, a pick-up rear ended a Semi - now tell me he was paying attention!

Florida was 23 degrees @ 4:30 p.m. - gas prices are going up.  We paid $3.19 before we left South Carolina and paid $3.34 in Florida.

Highway 10  thru Florida, is a really nice highway, it has nice large Rest Stops.  There are also quite a few RV Parks right beside the highway, must be for easy access.  We stayed in a Rest Stop at Lake City, Florida.

We got no sunshine in "The Sunshine State", we did get rain.


December 7 -

Dalton said he wasn't going to be comfortable until we started heading West, after our long delay in South Carolina.  We want to take Interstate 10, it will take us all the way to Arizona.  Up until now we have been heading South in order to get to Highway 10.  Today we finally got to head West.
Tallahassee, Florida - gas is $3.20 and Diesel is $4.00, we can't figure out why diesel is higher than gas, I guess it is one of life's little mysteries.

When we got to Mississippi, we had a good laugh.  We came upon a sign before crossing a river...you guessed it..."The Historical Suwannee River" with musical notes on the bottom of the sign.  Of course we both started singing, however, we each had a different song relating to the river, who knew.

Computer problems again.

We arrived at "Azalea Acres RV Park" in Mobile, Alabama.  We didn't do a very good job of searching it out.  It is a lovely park, the spots are big, very clean and quiet, however, it is a long way from everything.  We stayed for three nights even though we had to drive a long way to get to anything it was very nice and cheap too.