On The Road: Day 01 & 02.

Thursday morning, my Mom and I woke up, did some last minute packing and were out of the house by 10. We drove to my grandparents house, where we reloaded their car and then by 11:30, we were on our way. We only drove about 7 hours, because we had reservations at Harrah's Casino in Metropolis, IL. Luckily, the drive was pretty smooth and I got to sleep most of the time. 

Metropois, IL. 

Friday, day two of our driving, was a lot more eventful than the first. We left the hotel around 9 AM, thinking about driving a bit until we found somewhere for breakfast. In our minds, we had it planned that we would at least make it to Florida today. Our car apparently had a different plan....

13 hours from Metropolis, IL to Orlando, FL 

When we were approaching the highway and started accelerating more, the car wouldn't go over 40 mph and made a weird noise when trying to do so. Obviously, we couldn't drive like that so put the nearest Dodge dealership into the GPS and headed there. After sitting around for awhile, the man said that there was no way we would be driving the car today. Having to be in Orlando, we didn't have the time to stay the night again for the car to be fixed. So on to plan B; we got a rental car, a Suburban. Originally we were driving a Dodge Caravan, so we thought a Suburban would be just as big to haul down all my stuff... my many boxes and suitcases full of stuff (okay, I might have overpacked just a bit). Anyway, our Caravan proved to have much more storage and space than the Suburban, but do not fear, after much time figuring how to cram everything into the backend, we figured it out and nothing was left behind! 

After that we were off to Bob Evans for breakfast and did some re-planning of the trip. We thought it would be nice to make it as far as Alachua, Florida, which is a little over 2 hours from Orlando, that way we could get there and then spend the day at Universal Studios. 

We drove till about 10 PM and only made it to Ashburn, Georgia. Now because, once again, I slept the entire car ride, I am wide awake. So I'm typing this and working on a video blog I've been filming bits and pieces of the entire way down. Hopefully, it turns out well. 

4 and a half hours from Ashburn, GA to Orlando, FL tomorrow!