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VACATION TIME!!! PART 1 OF N+1 |      |
| » CATEGORY: Daily Blog | BY:
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| » POSTED ON: 7/17/2012 4:49:55 PM | MOOD:
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Well, it's been an interesting past couple of days, for sure! I go straight from being laid off to lying on the beach! ^_^ Funny how things work out!
Anywho, after my last day of work, I went straight into my vacation which the family and I had been planning for some time. The destination? Ocean City, MD! I made the first leg of the trip Friday evening, and finished the journey Saturday.
The first leg of the trip took me to Waynesboro, PA, where my uncle, aunt, and their family resides. I got a bit of a later start than I wanted to, but got to their place by about 11:30 PM Friday night. The trip was a little rough for a couple reasons. First off, I had to stop at the Highlands to get gas and pick up a couple travel items, which should have taken me about 15 minutes to do. Unfortunately, the Jamboree In The Hills crowd was beginning to roll into town, with what I assumed was a gaggle of rednecks who did not know how to either use technology or stay out of other people's ways. Needless to say, what was supposed to be a 15 minute stop turned into an hour-plus stay. Second, once I got into Maryland en route to Waynesboro (I-68 route was taken), it rained practically the entire time in Maryland. I had never driven in that part of the state before, so to have to navigate it in the rain was a bit nerve-wrecking, but I managed. But once I got into Waynesboro, despite my directions being pristine, a lack of marked roads led to me getting lost. I had taken a couple of wrong turns, and ended up somewhere way off the mark. I backtracked, though, and by coincidence, I happened to stumble upon the road my uncle lived on. So I turned there and looked for my mom's car (she had stopped there also), and I was able to finally find the house.
The second leg of the trip was pretty bad also, because that seemed to be the weekend where everybody decided to go to Ocean City, and we got stuck in some terrible traffic that added probably an hour and a half to our journey. There were several places where traffic was just at a stand-still, and add in the fact that we were traveling in a group of three separate cars that sometimes got separated due to the crazy traffic, we were all on pins and needles while making the trip. Even without the traffic, the trip was tough to make, because there was not an extremely easy way to get to the city. We were on interstate for a little while, but a huge chunk of the trip was made on several different state, national, and local highways that made us have to keep close tabs on where we were and how far away the next turn was. In the end, though, we made it here safe and sound.
So, this is where I leave off for now. Now that I got the travel part of it out of the way, I can go into detail of the fun I'm having! So stay tuned! ^_^
-- TG
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