Returning Home - Day 1

Mary and I awoke around 6 am and had a breakfast of cereal and tea from the Keurig machine.  We started packing a few things in preparation for our return drive back home to Georgetown, Kentucky. 

At 8 am Steve and I left to pick the processed wild boar from the Meat Shack in Okeechobee.  We picked the meat up and paid the $95 processing fee to grind most of the two hogs and prepare the tenderloins.  After getting the meat in the cooler, we stopped at a nearby Publix grocery store to get dry ice and duct tape to seal the cooler.  We also got several paper grocery bags to keep the dry ice spaced from the wrapped packages of meat.  Although the dry ice was a bit pricy, we wanted to assure that the meat didn’t spoil on the two day drive back to Georgetown, Kentucky. 

While we were gone, Mary had packed up our things and readied us for the 15 hour drive.  Although we had a Cadillac SUV for a rental, the space was limited with the coolers and all of our gear and clothing.  We got on the road by 11:30 am.

We drove east on Rt. 64 to I-75 where we drove north toward Atlanta.  The orange groves and cattle farms made for a pretty drive for us.  We ate our Walmart sub and fruit along the drive for lunch.  We got to Atlanta around 8:30 pm where we found traffic to be bad even at that hour.  We wanted to get through the city so we wouldn’t have to go through there on Wednesday morning. 

We stopped at Cartersville, Georgia just north of Atlanta and got a room at the Day’s Inn.  The room was fine since we would only be there long enough to get a few hours of sleep and the rates were good.