We wrapped up our trip to Florida by enjoying Thursday with a breakfast at Joe's in Inverness since the power was out at the Lauermann's. We ate a great pork chop dinner, drank down some White Russians (thanks Chris for the recipe) and enjoyed the pool one last day. We got up early on Friday morning and left Calvary Terrace at 8:30 pm. We were hoping to have clear sailing and did great for the first five hours, until we hit Atlanta. At that time, traffic came to a standstill for nearly two hours. We know that since we listened/watched all of Pirates of the Carribean 2 in only 30 miles distance. We even tried to get off I-75 and loop around Atlanta which only got us a tour of the countryside which opened into Atlanta Motor Speedway and through the city of Fayetteville before rejoining I-75 and enjoying about 10 minutes of movement before traffic stopped again. After clearing Atlanta in 8+ hours after hoping to do so in 6 hours, we drove 1.5 hours to Chattanooga and then 1.5 hours to Nashville (where it was snowing) and then 45 minutes to Clarkesville which is on the border of Tennessee and Kentucky. They have about 15 hotels at that Exit but we didn't have reservations and most were booked or only had smoking rooms available which was not an option. Finally, we found the Hampton Inn which had a jacuzzi suite available. That sounded great after 13+ hours in the car and Owen claimed it "the best hotel he's ever stayed at in his whole entire life!" On Saturday we got up and 8-ish, had a great hot breakfast in the lobby and headed back out. We stopped in Effingham for lunch/gas and at Gurnee Mills to stretch our legs. We dropped off a few things at Lauren's which dramatically improved the gas mileage for the last hour of the trip. Thanks Gma & Gpa for a great week in Florida!
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