And we're off!!!

 And We're Off!

Inverness Fl, - Ashburn, GA
2/Apr/24

Miles Traveled     241
Trip Total              241
Travel Time         4:20 

Florida, GA

Today was the big day, we pulled the power cord, lifted the jacks and headed out to start our adventure.   We planned to pull out of Mark & Karen's around 9AM, and  and we pulled it off. We had to do a little a jiggling to get both RV's out of the driveway, and the cars hooked up, but it went very smoothly.  

They live on a fairly busy street and there was no way to put both RV's on the street and hook up the cars. Fortunately there is a technical college across the street with a few large parking lots.  Mark and I drove the RV's there and Karen and Angel followed in the cars.  We quickly hooked our toads and headed out.    

Our first stop is Carrol's Sausage and Country Store 240 miles from Inverness.  

We try to keep our travel days around 250 to 300 miles or 4 to 5 hours of travel time. We also try to arrive at our destination by 3pm. While none of these are hard fast rules it makes our travel days much nicer.

The trip from Inverness to Carrol's was pretty straight forward and easy. Shortly after leaving we go on I75, and stayed on it till we reached Ashburn GA.  While it was a easy ride, drivers never cease to amaze me, some off the crazy thing drivers do, On ramps are the worst, cars will stay right along side us all the way until the end of the acceleration lane, then expect us to yield to them. 

What made todays trip fun, was all the people honking at us.  Before we left we took the just married sticker off the side of the RV and put them on the back of the car. Anything to make the ride more fun.  

We arrived at Carrol's (A Harvest Host site) around 2:30.  Harvest Host are small businesses that allow campers to spend the night, all they asked is that we spend a little money while were are there.  They are businesses like wineries, breweries, country stores and the like.  

Other than the store there is not much to do at this stop.  We did walk around Georgia Peanut RV Park right next door to Carrol's.  It is not much more the an overnight stop, really not much different than Carrol's other than they have water and electric.  We did not see the need to pay to stay there, when our site was free.  They do claim to have the world's largest peanut.  

It was a very relaxing evening and a good way to start our trip.