Part I: The Journey Begins
You may have noticed my lack of posting, updating, and commenting for the last two weeks, and the reason for my absence is because my whole family took a vacation/field trip down south. When I say “down south” I mean it. We stopped in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico. I was hoping to go to Arizona too but plans didn’t work out right.
We had one of the best times we’ve had in a long time! In total we traveled over 5,000 miles, drove for almost 100 hours stop to stop, met four blog-families, and took over 3,000 photos, which is why I have been so reluctant to post about it. I have to resize and watermark every photo! AHHHHHHHHH!!!! So I decided to only do a few on each post and then when I get them ALL done, I will do a slideshow for you to watch. Sound good?
The journey begins… We left on Friday, after staying up all night to pack and clean, and headed to Georgia. I was so tired but it was a long drive, and I can sleep well in the car. I took a book to read, a pillow, and my afghan to snuggle with. The drive was longer than it was supposed to be, but with stopping to go the bathroom for the Littles and then the kids who got car sick wasn’t, it couldn’t have been prohibited. I enjoyed seeing the different country sides of each state we passed through. We had wanted to stop in Nashville, Tennessee to see any historical places, but time wouldn’t allow it.
About lunch time we stopped at a Sonic in Kentucky…. oh boy, I love Sonic. We don’t have too many up here and the one we do have is 35minutes away so I took every chance I got to get a Blue Coconut slushy at Happy Hour. Ever been there?
After lunch we were back on the road, headed down to Tennessee and then onto Georgia. Driving through the mountains, hills, and seeing the rock walls on the highways in TN was amazing. I’d be in Tennessee twice before, but always God’s handiwork amazes me. I knew we were in Georgia when I began to see the famous “red clay” dirt. I’d never been in Georgia before so it was something new to see.
I fell asleep off and on after that, and then around 10:30pm I woke up. It was dark out and Mom, Dad, and Amanda we’re all talking about going “just 5 more miles” because they’d thought we were a lot closer than we actually were. Plus it was dark, raining, the roads were curvy, and there was road construction, which led to us turning around once or twice…
Nearly fifteen hours and 656 miles later we arrived just outside of Atlanta at the C’s house. Ah finally we could get out and stretch our legs! We were also hungry so we went in and got a bite to eat. The C’s have eight kids just like us so it was pretty crazy with 10 Littles running around, and Miss Lily kept wanting to “help” Luli play. Around 2am, after checking our email!, we finally went to bed…. ah glorious bed! We’re exhausted! Unfortunately all that sleep didn’t do me too good because when I got up I had a horrible pain in my side and spent most of the morning we were there asleep. They had to come wake me up to get photos and leave. Mom prayed for me after that and the pain was gone within fifteen minutes. I was amazed yet again by God’s awesome power and love.
We met Mrs. C online almost a year ago when Mother Dear, Amanda, and I had started writing for HSBA. Mrs. C is pretty cool and is the one who keeps the HSBA site looking great. She has also been very kind as to help me with any wordpress tech help I need. We had a nice time to fellowship with her family.
We left the C’s around 11:30 and headed further west to meet Brooke, who some of you may know as IloveyouGod from HSB. Brooke and I have become close friends over the past year and she has been a real blessing to me. She was one of those bloggers who was marked on my list to meet. She is as sweet in real life as she is on her blog. Her sister Holly and other siblings were also very sweet. I was happy to be able to meet her parents as well. We stayed at Brooke’s for a few hours, having lunch and talking, before we headed out. I’m so thankful for the sweet relationship I have with her and so blessed to have met her in real life!
Though, we were just at the beginning of our travels, already did that big white van look dreary as we piled back in. It would seem we’d have plenty of room but with five carseats, two coolers, “travelpack” for each Little, and bags… it isn’t that roomy…
More coming as soon as I take time to resize more photos.
Blessings!
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Posted By Miss Jocelyn Tzahala on June 30, 2008 | Category: In The Life Of A Country Girl
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Well, Miss Jocelyn,
It looks like, even from these few photos, that you had a wonderful time! I love traveling, and journey like that has me jealous! Car trips are always fun.
I can’t wait to see the rest of your pictures! Just don’t hurt yourself trying to post them. :)
Have a very bright, very cheerful day!
Miss Eyebright
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Wow! I didn’t expect to be the first commenter.
Unless you just posted.
I like the pictures!
Can’t wait for the other 293! LOL! ;)
Lil Bro,
Beav
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I can’t believe you can sleep in the car! I have SUCH a hard time falling asleep in anything but my own bed. lol.
Looks like y’all are having a great time!
It must be so cool meeting in-person all the people you’ve “met” on HSB. :)
Stay safe!!
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What a cool trip! We have a sonic right around the cornner. We like to go between 2-4 because its happy hour which means all the drinks are half off.. so i get a middum charry limeaid for about 80c.
Thats cool you got to meet some other bloggers!
Samantha
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This will be fun reading the account of your trip on all three blogs!! I always enjoy all the pix, too. Looking forward to the slide show at the end. :D
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Greetings Jocelyn,
Sounds like you had a nice trip…. I enjoy road trips, but I know what you mean when you get tired of seeing the car. We have done a few long trips like that.
I have actually never been to a Sonic, well at least that I can think of… we don’t have them around here. Wait, I might have been to one once on the way to Arizona one time.
Well I look forward to seeing some more of your pictures, I know that is a lot of work to get them all posted.
Take care,
Brielle
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Great pics, Joc. I thank the Lord that He kept all of you safe going that many miles.
Love You,
Grandma Starr
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Oh! I love Sonic! lol.
Looks like you had a good time. Can’t wait to see more!
Love,
~Nikki
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Glad you had a great time!!! That picture of SONIC almost brought tears to my eyes. When I lived in the south we had those everywhere like weeds and we’d go there ALL THE TIME!!!!!!! My grandpa owns all the ones in his part of TX, so when we go… heheh!
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Oh good I was wondering how your trip went !
I cant wait to see and read more about it!
lots of love
*Miss Ellie*
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Oh gosh, how fun! 5,000 miles? Unbelievable! I traveled a little over 2,000 miles when I relocated to Chicago and I thought that was long! Road trips are so fun and I cherish them dearly, I can’t wait to see more pictures *winks*. And gosh, the gas prices must be low over there to do all that traveling. It’s almost 5 dollars per gallon here in Sacramento, CA, crikey!
Have a great night and you look awesome in all of your pictures!!
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Hey Joc,
Aw shucks! That would of been so cool if I could of had that on my blog. A wordpress blog? What exactly is the difference between HSB and wordpress? Do I have to buy anything? (yeah, that shows how cheap I am) ^_^
Oh yes! Totally! I missed ya’ll the moment ya’ll drove away. :-( Sniff, sniff. So either ya’ll simple must come back for a longer visit, or you might have unexpected house guest someday. ^_^
Great entry, I can’t wait to read about ya’ll’s trip in Louisiana. Did you eat any Rot Hot Cajun sauce? ^_^
Luv ya,
Sarah
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Oh it sounds like you have a lovely time! I cannot wait to read more about it!
I liked the post you did about Praise You through the storm. I did not know about Rachel, but I did about Noah, and Sarah as she is my best friend.
You are right, it never said in the Bible that our lives as Chirstains would be ease. But our comfort is is that God is with us. That is so much more then what the world has. It is our comfort, it gets us through the trials that surround us because we have someone we can rely on.
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My word, you sure went to a LOT of places!!!
My church has the same van, and often there are as many kids as they can squash into it when we go somewhere. But there have been times where I’ve gotten the whole back seat to myself, which is nice …..
Wow, well, keep posting!!
–Kate
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Hey Jocelyn,
I really enjoyed reading about your first day of travels! I am very grateful we had the privilege to meet you all and that you were able to stop by. I hope it’s not too long before it happens again!
Thank you for all the kind things you said about me. You have been a great blessing to me as well and I am SO thankful for your friendship!! I love you and Amanda bunches.
Love you,
Brooke.
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Looks like it was a great trip!
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