Lunch with our niece - N.C.

After going on Facebook last night we discovered our niece Becky wasn’t far from us. She lives in Charlotte and invited us over for lunch. We left High Point around 10 and made good time there (before noonish). She made a Chicken Kiev and spinach salad for lunch – what a treat!  It was so nice to be able to visit with her and catch up if even so briefly (it’s been many years). Alex and Kenzie (her two munchkins) are adorable. They also have 2 kittens from the animal shelter that just melt your heart. I was very good and didn’t shanghai either of them. J  We were sorry to have missed Travis – they were practicing drills at an old school (he’s a fireman) this weekend.

The rest of the day was spent on the road and we’re somewhere in S. Carolina about 15 miles from the Georgia border. I saw my first palm tree – okay clump of palms (probably palmettos) on the grassy median while we were zipping along through S. Carolina.  It’s funny to think as we race along I-95 at 70mph towards Florida how the pace of our travels via car compares to the pace of life on the boat. In the car (or even in a plane) it’s speed and all about the destination. On the boat, it’s the journey there as well. You get to see so much more at a slower pace than zipping along in the car.  We’ll go from 70mph and roughly 360 miles in the course of 8-10 hours to a whopping 6-7mph and 35-50 miles in the same amount of time. Life slows considerably and there’s time to look and actually see/feel your surroundings at a hiking speed. 

We pulled in for the night about 15 miles from the Georgia border. So tonight we’re in S. Carolina. The push for Florida will continue tomorrow.