I have been travelling between North Carolina and Michigan, for over 10 years now.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0 have made this 800 mile journey probably 15 times but the worst trip ever occurred last week.\u00a0 The adventure started early in the evening when I was\u00a0 woken up half\u00a0an hour earlier than plan by the sound of Kendall coughing and throwing up. I\u00a0really didn’t give it much thought because \u00a0I had made her eat earlier when she was not hungry. After we loaded up it was off to Krispy Kreme for our late night snack. Unfortunately, I had made a mistake and we missed closing my 20 minutes. Next was an usual\u00a0chain of \u00a0events that caused a relatively long trip become a really really unforgettable trip. Our GPS sent us on a totally different route than we had ever take, we have since discovered\u00a0that by mistake we\u00a0told it to avoid toll roads. \u00a0We headed west to Tennessee, I will spare all of us the details but Kendall was sick twice more in the first four hours. Matt and I had a serious discussion about turning around and heading\u00a0home but Kendall did not want to because in her logic ” We have packed everything in the van for the trip.”\u00a0\u00a0The route itself was very twisting and turning, it felt like we were in the mountains for ever.\u00a0 Our most uneventful period was \u00a0between 4am and 9am. We stopped and ate at Cracker Barrel around 6am and thought okay we are about half way with the additional stops we should be at the hotel around 2pm.\u00a0Things turned from long to worse in Kentucky around 9:30 when it started to snow heavily. In the next 6 hours we travelled less than 200 miles in terrible condition that included “white outs” and long periods of sitting waiting on wrecks to clear. At around 5pm we made it to Ann Arbor and discovered that the further north we headed the better the travel and weather appeared to be.\u00a0 So we decided to continue on. We arrived at our hotel around 8:30pm a mere 22 and half hours after we left!\u00a0 We were both exhausted!<\/p>\n
I am completing this post after our travel back to North Carolina on Sunday January 5th. The weather was again awful for travel and we ended up in a wreck in Ohio. Our van hit a patch of ice, did a couple of circles, hit a guardrail. The van was driveablel l\u00a0 will post pictures next week, however we managed to arrive home in 16 hours and so the trip to Michigan remains the worst Travel day EVER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been travelling between North Carolina and Michigan, for over 10 years now.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0 have made this 800 mile journey probably 15 times but the worst trip ever occurred last week.\u00a0 The adventure started early in the evening when I … Continue reading