day fifteen and sixteen, new orleans to atlanta to columbia

day fifteen, new orleans to atlanta

we wake up to snow falling and already 2-3 inches on the ground.



is today going to be a repeat of yesterday's crappy travel conditions? the news reports are telling of downed power lines and school closures. we head down to continental breakfast and feel ripped off due to a lack of scrambled eggs. we talk about the things i dwelled on before falling asleep last night, including my idea for my mexican wrestler alter ego, "el gripe". matt helps me decide that my costume would be solid brown with a brown ski mask. my slogan: no one escapes el gripe!

we head out with our destination to be new orleans city center. we already had our hotel reserved and planned to party bourbon street style tonight. however, the crappy weather coupled with the fact that we have been on the road for two weeks now and it might be nice to actually get to where we're going, we decide to drive right on through and head to atlanta.

i quibble with the hotels.com associate and luckily enough, the poor weather conditions are a good excuse to get a refund on the hotel we have reserved for tonight.

we stop in biloxi, mississippi at mcdonalds and hash out our next big idea.

my friend sydney greets us in atlanta, fresh from the sting of opening her outrageous cell phone bill. she supplies the booze and a place for us to sleep for the night. we are grateful.

day sixteen, atlanta to columbia

syd is already at work when we rouse ourselves. it's nice not to have to meet a check out deadline and we are glad to only have 200 miles between us and our final destination.

it should have only taken us three hours to get home, unfortunately, it was closer to five. there was a heinous traffic accident involving two 18 wheelers and some lost axles. when we arrive, mom and dad are waiting and we decide to put off unloading the truck until tomorrow.