Road Trip to North Carolina
May 22, 2002

At this point, I'm still in Florida. I'm hoping to find the place that trucker got her coffee.

Someone else is happy to be taking a road trip.   :-)

I could have made it all the into Atlanta before running out of gas! I'm so impressed with my little Saturn. Isn't she pretty? And notice the guardian angel hovering off to the left. I'm impressed with her too!

This is the same gas station just before Atlanta. The sound of running trucks and burning diesel brings back memories. It was stopping at a place just like this on a cross country trip where I first got the idea to truck. The idea sounded something like, "Wow. That's a whole new world."

Atlanta Ho! I remember when I thought this was a pretty long trip -- to Atlanta. It's funny that I'm only halfway to where I'm going.

The thing that gets me is that there is actually traffic. People are going to work and it's only like five or six in the morning. That's just wrong. You hear me? Wrong! (The guy in that truck in the next lane was pretty impressed I was taking pictures.)

It looks like my camera took a blurry picture here because my car was flying down the road at 80. (Slow by Atlanta standards.) But this is actually what Atlanta looked like.

This is a rest area in South Carolina. Life is good when there is so much beauty that you just have to store some of it at a rest area.

...some of the trees look like close up. <sigh> I'm so sick of palms.

Same stop in SC -- some crazy girl parked by the lake when there were still a few spots in front of the bathrooms! Silly!

Fields of yellow at a stop in North Carolina.

I almost stepped on this bird nest there. Not that it matters, I guess, as the nest was empty. I hope her kids are doing well. "Hi Mom!"

Sure I may have looked crazy taking a closeup picture of the trees...

There is a reflection of someone in my car window, and nobody else there but me! Pretty creeped out, I decide to take a picture.

At this point I'm singing, I'm dancing -- but not because I'm happy. I'm just trying to stay awake. Some guys up the road thought it would be cute to cut me off and imitate my groove. Dream on rednecks! And get the hell out of my way; I'm practically there!