August 13, 2001: Travel Page 5

I once again hung around the Space Coast for a couple of days after the launch to watch the shuttle rendezvous with the space station and then headed up the East Coast to see everyone again.

Or, maybe not.  I was headed up to see Dave and Stacey and the girls for a couple more days before our little mini-reunion in Sharpsburg.  I decided to try an alternate route instead of crunching up Interstate 95, which has its many obstacles for long distance travelers -- obstacles such as Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.  Maybe just other cars in those areas, really...

Anyway, the route I took was north up I-95 past Savannah, Georgia into South Carolina to Interstate 26, which would take me up to Columbia, where I would hit Interstate 77.  From there, that would go up through Charlotte, North Carolina, into Virginia to Interstate 81.  Then I would go up through Virginia to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which would get me most of the rest of the way.

Just south of Savannah, Georgia	north of Charlotte, North Carolina

In theory, this seemed like it would a much less stressful drive, but in practice only half of the drive turned out to be that way.  For some reason, there just seemed to be a lot more "travel challenged" drivers out on these roads that day.

Somewhere on Interstate 81 around where I-66 splits off

Aside from that and poor navigational form missing the Pennsylvania Turnpike and getting stuck for a short time in Harrisburg traffic, the rest of the trip was fortunately uneventful and I got to Doylestown in the evening around sunset.

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