Five States, Seventeen Hours, Three Buc-ee's & We're Finally Home

We got the boys up early this morning and were on the road by 6:45 a.m.  We all hoped to make it home by midnight.  I brought plenty of snacks including a loaf of peanut butter sandwiches and a lot of drinks in the hope that we would be able to avoid long lines for fast food.  We made it through Florida and to our first stop in Georgia without any issues.  The boys slept most of the way, but were all up and ready to explore Buc-ee's when we arrived.  Samuel and Avery had never even heard of the famed convenience store.  Thankfully, Cameron and I didn't over hype it and they were just as impressed with it as we were the first time that we stopped.  

We made it through Atlanta without much traffic.  That was a complete surprise for a Friday at noon.  The rest of Georgia was traffic free as well which wasn't the biggest news of the day.  That occurred when Doug told us that he needed to do a few things for work and that we would be stopping at our second    Buc-ee's of the day.  The boys used this stop to purchase matching key chains.  I was thankful for the clean bathrooms once again.

The next good news that we received was when we finally made it out of Georgia.  We had spent five and a half hours in the state and were glad to be done with it.  The boys had used the time in the car to read "Devil in the White City"  for Michael's class.  They all said that they liked different aspects of the book, but hated having to annotate it.  I couldn't blame them for that.  

We decided to drive through the east side of Tennessee on this trip.  The time was about the same and we knew that there would be less mountains to navigate.  The added bonus was that once we made it through the state there would be another Buc-ee's waiting for us in Kentucky.  I bought all of the boys their famed brisket sandwiches to try and we enjoyed our dinner traveling into Indiana.  

Our last major stop of the night was in Indianapolis where we had to drop Samuel off to get his car.  He had parked it there Tuesday night when he flew to Orlando.  He and Avery grabbed their bags and soon we were on our way to Syracuse and they had left for Goshen.  The last part of the trip was a quick one as there wasn't any traffic on the road.  We pulled into the driveway at 11:40 p.m. just twenty minutes short of our arrival goal.  Cameron headed straight to bed, glad to be home and happy to have had a fun week with his friends.