Hi folks. Haven't checked in for a while, so busy with holidays since we got back from our trip. Quick rundown of our drive down:
Left PA around 11:30 AM on November 19, picked up Lauren from school and hit the road from there. Traffic was wonderful the whole way, didn't hit any major cities at any rush hours, although we were a little worried about hitting Richmond at the beginning of rush hour, but we did fine. We used 95 through the city and crossed our fingers LOL.
Some of you may know that I like stopping at local restaurants rather than chains on the road. So we stopped at a place called White Swan Bar-B-Que in Benson NC. The website looked good, the menu looked good, and it's NC so we should have barbecue, right? So, we got there around 7:30 and there was one other family there. They told us we could sit down and they could come take our order. They brought us a big plate of hush puppies and we ordered dinner. I got chicken and barbecue, hubby got barbecue sandwich, Shawn got shrimp and fries and Lauren got a burger and fries. Kinda greasy, not wonderful. So I said before we leave, we should go to the ladies room. OH MY GOSH!!!! That bathroom had not been cleaned in a month! It was dirty and disgusting, I said let's get out of here.
Fast forward, we stayed at the Comfort Inn and Suites in Santee that night, room was nice, we were tired so we went to bed fairly early. Suddenly I notice that my daughter is sitting up in bed and I ask what's wrong. She says her stomach hurts and she might throw up. So it begain, starting at 3 am, through to 8 am, many trips to the bathroom where she kept vomiting. We blame the burger. The rest of us had some distress, but nothing as bad as she did.
Moral of the story, check the bathrooms first, BEFORE you order any food. If I had seen that bathroom, I would never have let any one sit in the restaurant, or eat or drink anything. I will be putting a Yelp review online about it.
So, what does that mean?? McDonald's is the safest restaurant on the road
Mike says it's pb&j from now on, made by us. Luckily, it didn't impact her trip that much, although she didn't want to eat a lot of food for a couple of days and she still hasn't eaten a burger.
Gas prices were great, I think we paid around $2.69 at the lowest. We love driving in the winter because we use about 3/4 of a tank less of gas with no a/c running. We usually use 100 gallons of gas, this time we used about 85-90.
Trip update and ride home
to come.
it was $2.07 when I drove by around 6am and around 2pm it was $1.99
We are taking two days to get to the World. It is my DH, myself, and DD(13). Work is going to go so slow today. I am really looking forward to the drive although I'm a little nervous about the rain storm it looks like we will hit in VA and NC.
