Day Four
March 4, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana to Lexington, South Carolina
10.75 hours of driving time
666 miles
5 states
I woke up, hungover from our jaunt on Bourbon St, with our second longest day ahead of us, but also our last full day of driving. I have family in South Carolina, who graciously had decided to let us crash with them for the night, so our nights in hotels were over. Day Four was the beginning of the end.
We spent the morning as we usually did, sleeping past our wake-up calls and lazily checking out of the hotel, taking quick driving tours through the hotspots of the city. We drove back down to Bourbon so we could see it in the daylight and through sobered (well, somewhat) eyes, then over to the French Market, where we ate beignets at Cafe du Monde while a homegrown New Orleans jazz group accompanied our dining experience (and gave me half off their cd because I'm just so charming).
Then Onward! Through the rest of Louisiana (which was mostly all bridges), Mississippi...
... where we stopped in Biloxi, searching for the mansion of Jefferson Davis but had no luck and backtracked to the freeway, where we crossed into Alabama...
... and had trouble (for the second time) finding food (the previous was the night before, in Lafayette), before finally switching back to me an hour or so outside Montgomery. Then crossed into Georgia...
And South Carolina... And that was it. We stopped once more for gas and coffee right as the gas station was closing, and then we were in Lexington, sleeping on my cousin's bed and chatting with my Aunt as we arrived shortly around midnight.
Day Five
March 5, 2010
Lexington, South Carolina to Raleigh, North Carolina
4 hours of driving time
237 miles
2 states
This time, our morning was spent meeting my cousin for lunch in downtown Columbia, and as Bestie and I had both been to the city before, there was no need for extensive sightseeing, and the final legs of There and Back Again began. We stopped once near Fayetteville for gas and a restroom break, then arrived at Bestie's house in Raleigh, North Carolina. We ate ate Moe's (it'd been so long for me, and I do love that restaurant), then went to Alice in Wonderland opening night. Then it was bedtime and goodbyes the next morning, as I parted to make the last stretch alone.
Day Six
March 6, 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia
3 hours of driving time
175 miles
2 states
This was a drive I was used to. Wilmington to Richmond is four hours, via I-40 West and I-95 North. If you keep going on 40, you hit Raleigh. So from the 40 East/ 95 N intersection, it was auto-pilot. And after five days of an average of 12 hours a day of driving, three hours was nothing.
And then I was home.
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