After work on Friday Kara and I got in the car and headed for my parent’s house about an hour away from Brunswick. We went up Friday night and Saturday to see my folks and Saturday afternoon and Sunday we saw her parent’s and her cousin and his family. Well, we wanted to make the trip up fairly quickly, as my Dad cooked dinner for us. (I guess when you’re retired you cook and bake cakes and do lots of yard work?) We made a quick stop at Target then another quick stop to get gas. Then we hit I-95. In about 10 minutes we were stuck in stand-still traffic. And we stood still for what seemed forever. We had only passed two exits since leaving Brunswick and Hwy 17 was nowhere near for us to jump on instead.
About 2 hours later we were finally re-routed to a truck weigh station – through the weigh station – and onto Hwy 17 that’s just behind it. I-95 was shut down going north for miles. Construction? Paving? Government cover-up? Who knows, but I’ve always wanted to go through a weigh station to see what it’s like for some reason.
After driving on Hwy 17 for a few miles, it too was blocked to a certain point and we were re-routed back on I-95! So, we arrived 3.5 hours later at my parent’s house. A little late for dinner – but we still ate and it was good.
Saturday we woke up and ate a nice breakfast. We headed over to Kara’s parent’s and spent some time with them talking and seeing her extended family well into the evening. Yesterday we went out to Tybee Island. It was a beautiful day. After a good dinner at The Crab Shack we headed back and Kara and I headed back to Brunswick.
This coming weekend: Vero Beach.
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my dad came up to s’boro for the weekend, and he got caught in the same traffic friday night. he said it was pretty crazy. he thought it was a traffic accident / car wreck.
dang Vero beach. Have fun that will be awesome. Tammy and I are headed to Chattanooga for the weekend