The Drive to Maryland
On Friday, I had lunch with my sister and her family in Venice, FL, and later spent the night at the home of my brother and his wife in Spring Hill, a little town north of Tampa. I had thought that driving the long distance to Maryland on the weekend would be a good idea because there would be no construction workers and few semi trucks on the roads then.
The theory was OK, but the fact was different. In both Florida and Georgia, for a period of 40 miles each, the traffic was so heavy that we could only go 20 mph or less! All the snowbirds in Florida had decided this was the time to go North! When I finally reached South Carolina, it was 7 PM and I was ready to call it a day. That left me 600 miles to go on Sunday in order to reach home! After all that, I have to rest a while before I do any landscape painting!