Epic Crocodilian Road Trip Day 1

We got up just before 8 and rolled out.

First stop:  Auspicious Baking Company.  I may or may not have planned this entire trip as an excuse to stop here.  It was as excellent as anticipated, but I am glad we don't have one close or I would be there entirely too often.  Sam threw shade at Auggie for ordering a $15 slice of chocolate cake for breakfast.  Auggie was unrepentant.  I would report on the cake, but he is refusing to share.

Left ABC to head toward our first crocodilian stop, the Okefenokee swamp.  I have clear memories of this stop on our Florida Road trip in 1987, mostly of my dad picking up Andrew and throwing him into the van because he was about 6 feet from a big gator.  I'm hopeful today will be memorable for less dramatic reasons.

Saw wild hogs on the side of 95.  What?

Fun and gross fact for those of you here for the schadenfreud:  we're all wearing yesterday's clothes and none of us brushed our teeth.

Epic Crocodilian Road Trip Day 0

Welcome back, everyone, to your vicarious thrill of bad ideas, questionable parenting, and less than coherent rambling.  In this edition:  thousands of miles of driving, car sick kids (and me), Florida heat in June, and the prospect of being eaten by more than one species of crocodilian!

We left Bristow yesterday before 5pm after a day of last minute laundry, shopping, and panicked packing.  Auggie had his last day of theater camp until 4 and somehow this all seemed much more reasonable when I scheduled it.  Shoutout to LM for their amazingness in stepping up to being Auggie's 1:1 so he could thrive at camp and just generally making our week so much better than it would have been without their presence.  Shoutout to Christine for staying with Anzio in his geriatric stage so we could go.

Who would like to get an over/under on the number of Chick Fil A stops we make on this trip?  The running total is 1, in Colonial Heights once we got past the requisite Northern VA Friday evening traffic.

Both boys had some tablet time in the car and started their trip journals.  I started a list of things we forgot and put an Amazon order in to have delivered to our hotel in Orlando.  Lyle, heroically, drove.

We made our first ever Buccee's stop somewhere in SC (Florence?).  Put a check in that box.  

We got to Savannah sometime after 2am.  Yay for digital check in.  Set an alarm and collapsed into bed.