We're home

From Cordele, GA we stayed south on I-75 for 315 miles in almost 6 hours and arrived home safely on Wednesday afternoon.  We traveled a total of 4,758 miles in 4 weeks and I took over 1,000 pictures.

Georgia

We left North Carolina about 8:30 this morning and had a little slowdown with Charlotte's rush hour traffic. We avoided Atlanta by using 441 & 129 to Macon and I-75. At that time another driver got our attention pointing to the tires on the camper. One of them had blown out. We got to a gas station, bought gas & pulled off where there was room for Paul to change the tire. We saw a tire store & went there to replace the bad tire. So we were in Macon about an hour. Then it was about 5 when we got to the campground in Cordele.  Paul went ahead and took off the spare and put the new tire on. It has been a good trip but we'll be glad to get home.  We passed the 4,000 miles traveled mark yesterday.  It seems campground fees were higher but gas was lower this year than last year.

Heading South

We traveled about 300 miles today in about 6 1/2 hours from Luray, VA to Statesville, NC.  There were still some fall colors along the way but less and less the further south we go. Because of the tremendous flooding in South Carolina, we have eliminated our last stop which was Congaree National Park near Columbia which is still under water.  Maybe in the spring we'll return to the area for that and Shenandoah on clearer days. We have adjusted our route home from I-95 to I-75 and will avoid going through South Carolina.  We have a long day ahead tomorrow of a little more than 400 miles to Cordele, GA and then head for home on Wednesday.

Shenandoah

The rain continues...mostly a drizzle with fog.  We drove on Skyline Drive in Shanandoah National Park Sunday but with the gray skies and fog we couldn't see much. Then we went back to Walmart for a few supplies and bought a pizza ready for the oven. We baked our pizza and watched football - a typical Sunday afternoon for us during football season.  I was snapping pictures from the truck - you tell it was rainy and foggy.  The last 2 show the mountains from our campsite yesterday and then this morning the sun actually rose. Of course as we left we could see there were still clouds on the mountains so visibility probably wasn't much better.

Luray Virginia

Yesterday was a rain-out kind of day.  It was also cool for us in the 50's with a breeze.  We brought out the heavier jackets for the first time (thought we would need them in Maine not Virginia!). We went into town and restocked some supplies and pretty much stayed in most of the day.  The campground is in the mountains and the sites are up a hill so we weren't concerned about any flooding.
It's still raining today but most of it has passed over and the visibility is improving but temperature in the high 40's and not expected to go much higher.  We went to Luray Caverns and Luray Car and Carriage Museum this morning. TV reception is good even without cable and there's football today.  If it clears more we may go out again and check visibility on Skyline Drive.  It should be clearer tomorrow so we'll go there then.

NY to VA

We traveled about 400 miles today from Florida, New York to Luray, Virginia in about 8 hours. It's probably the longest day on the road on this trip but we have done several days lately that were 200 miles in 4 hours so we decided to do it.  We saw some beautiful fall colors mostly on I-84 across and I-81 southwest through Pennsylvania. It was pretty cool all day; jeans and sweatshirt weather in the 50s with some rain. There is more rain forecast some of it from Hurricane Joaquin even though it is farther east than originally forecast.  Most of the morning I was just snapping pictures; it seemed when I put the camera down more fall colors appeared.  Thankfully I could delete the bad ones.