Lessons Learned

As experienced on every trip there are many lessons that we have come to realize are true. Unplanned events some might say. Here are a few of ours:

Good: Packing a suitcase filled with 30 outfits just because you are not sure what you might want to wear.
Bad: Having to do laundry mid week because you are out of t-shirts.

Good: Being told that you aren't that bad at reading a map
Bad: Getting turned around in a restaurant and not knowing how to get out.

Good: Having Garmin GPS with you so that you will know where to go.
Bad: Thinking you know more than Garmin and choose your own path to then have to have Garmin to get you back on track.

Good: Taking a tour on a bus of the city.
Bad: Being stuck with a bunch of *ahem cough cough* older women that won't quit talking and don't know how to answer their phones and have no phone etiquette. 

Good: Collecting your room key from the lost and found on a boat.
Bad: Getting back to the motel only to figure out that neither one of the keys work to let you in your room.

Good: Having sandals that match your outfits so that your look is complete.
Bad: Being told constantly to "Kick it out of granny low and into first gear"

Good: Cloudy and Rainy to keep the temperatures in the 70's
Bad: Cloudy and Rainy

Good: Shell Gas station being the choice gas station down here so that you can use your Shell Credit Card
Bad: Your vehicle not clicking the gas nozzle off so that gas splashes out every time you fill up.

Good: All the delicious food in the South
Bad: Being constantly full so you can't enjoy or finish the food.

Good: Having a cooler to put drinks in and snacks such as cheese.
Bad: Not keeping the cooler cool so you have to throw your cheese away.

Good: Enjoying all you can drink Peach Tree from the American Classic Tea Plantation.
Bad: Heading home and having to stop every hour to go to the bathroom.

Good: Having a marvelous trip and many wonderful memories to take home with you.
Bad: Dragging those memories and suitcases in at 4:00 in the morning when you finally get home.

So here is to the historic towns of the South, the home cooked food of the South, the sweet tea of the South, the 178 steps up to the top of the lighthouse in the South, the history of the South, the many miles we walked around the South, the 1,000 miles we traveled in 14 hours to get home from the South, the knowledge we gained about the South, the laughs we had, and the upsets we shared. Here is to The Southern Vacation of 2010!

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