Who's cranky now?

Day 4 - 1/6/10 
On the road to Orlando, having left Savannah.  Unfortunately we didn’t see much of Savannah.  I’m still trying to figure out how a 2 hour drive from Charleston to Savannah turned into 7 hours in the car. One cause – we realized as we pulled into the Savannah area that we had left something very important back in Charleston (no, it wasn’t the camper, but it’s close).  We realized that someone (who shall remain nameless) forgot to take the crank handle out of the back of the camper when he were done closing up.  Apparently it jiggled out and is laying somewhere on the highway between Charleston and Savannah.  To make things even more interesting we learned (after visiting and calling several RV dealers) that Fleetwood (who bought out Coleman) has now gone out of business so no one sells Fleetwood campers any longer and thus very few will have the crank that fits our pop-up.  Without the crank to raise the pop-up we’re pretty much stuck to hotels.  Luckily we had already planned to stay in a hotel last night since it’s so dang cold and it just didn’t seem worth the work of setting up for one night (especially when we’re freezing our booties off). 


So, we’re on the road to Orlando by way of Jacksonville where we think a guy has a crank that will work.  I’m sure he won’t charge us much since he knows we’re 600 miles from home and totally dependent on getting this crank.  Ha!


Scott just read an article on the AP about how this cold snap in Florida is lasting longer than they’ve seen in years and is threatening the crops.  Needless to say, we’re feeling a little irritated that the two weeks we’ll be in FL there’s going to be record lows the entire time.  At this point we’re starting to laugh though.  What are the odds, really?!? 

We’re enjoying the landscape – the beautiful live oaks covered in Spanish moss, the palm trees, the flowers.  We had a great dinner last night at my cousin’s house in a beautiful area of Savannah.  It was great spending the evening with them and catching up.  Their boys, Collin and Evan, were the perfect hosts and Kerby and Joelle enjoyed them immensely.

Okay, time to get some schoolwork done while I have them trapped in the car (insert evil laugh).  More later.