Travels were great. Traffic kept a good pace, normally better than the speed limit all through Tennessee. Saw my first cop sitting under an overpass. It was raining or misting the whole way through. But at least down there, people understand that rain will not hurt them when they drive.
It basically stayed rainy off and on until I got south of Atlanta. Then the only other rain I hit was in Northern Florida for like 5 minutes and it wasn't bad at all.
Atlanta is a beautiful city. I personally don't think the picture I did manage to nab does it justice. It just glimmered and I didn't try to catch that. But I did love how the buildings partly hid in the clouds. It was so pretty. Definitely a city I would love to spend a few days exploring. That was one of my main thoughts as I drove through. And I guess at some point I did experience the 16 lanes of hell .... I just never realized it since traffic moved at a good speed the whole time.
South of Atlanta, I took the Macon bypass. Once south of Macon, I thought, Oh, I must be getting close now only to realize I was only at like mile marker 225 or something. It just drug on. But then when I hit Florida it was the same way. I hit Florida about 4pm. I had to continue down for like 200 miles before I even got the Turnpike. Only to get on the turnpike and give Florida $6 more than they deserved of my money because I miss calculated what I was suppose to do and went a good 30 miles too far south and had to turn around and do that back. I had to pay to get BACK on and to get OFF. I didn't expect this. Then after getting frustrated that I couldn't seem to figure out which stop light was the one I needed on 27, I had dinner at Friendly's. Turns out I was just grossly under estimating how far I had to go before I got to the right light.
I finally got here at 10:15pm. Clarance did well! But it was a horribly lonely and boring ride ....
Found gas for $1.45 in GA. And paid $1.60 in FL.
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