Day 65 - Sept 22 - Savannah - GPS for Sale - CHEAP

Today we traveled from Panama City Beach in west Florida to Savannah Georgia along the Atlantic coast. It was a long uneventful trip through some very poor rural counties in northern Florida and Georgia. Many of the homes along the route were trailers that were in direr need of repair. What was especially disturbing was the number of homes that flew the Confederate flag, including one that was across the street from an Afro-American church. I guess some people will never learn.

We decide that the quick route would also be the geographically shortest route. We went northeast along back roads and secondary highways, instead of east on I10 and then north on I95. We had originally thought that this was a good idea. This was interesting for a while, but after a couple of hours it became annoying as you had to slow down to 35mph for each small village or town, which seemed to occur each ten miles or so. After awhile, each village looked the same. Each had a gas station, corner store or hardware store, church and a fast food restaurant. I'm sure that it added at least an hour to what was going to be a very long trip.

Hey Wendy B, you’ll be very proud of me. I finally started to watch Oprah’s twentieth anniversary dvd’s and it made the trip seem a lot shorter for me.

Gertrude, our GPS, was especially annoying today. At least four times, Gertrude tried to make us turn on nonexistent roads. A couple of other times we went where she told us to go and she immediately started her “recalculating” voice and told us to go in another direction. When we decided that we would finally take the direct route on highway 82 to I95, Gertrude still wanted us to take the back roads into Savannah. We had to mute her before I threw it out of the window.

Gas in Georgia is 80 cents more expensive for a gallon than in Florida and Texas. They are blaming it on the hurricanes but the refineries that supply the east coast are also the same refineries that supply the gulf coast, so someone is lying.