The Road Trip

Day 22

Left: Childress, Texas at 7:30am
Arrived: Orlando, Florida at 5:30am (the next day)
States: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georga, Florida.
Distance: 1387 miles.

I'm writing this from Orlando, Florida. The final destination of our C around America. The mansion (complete with pool and 2 hot tubs) is a far cry from the camp sites we've been staying in on the road trip (not that they weren't deadly craic).Yesterday we completed probably the longest drive I'll ever do. The drive totalled at a quite impressive 1387 miles. Ittook just over 22 hours and crossed more than half of America (with 4 15 minute breaks). It started at 7:30am central time(GMT +7) in Childress, Texas. The first 4 and a half hours (which I did.. at one stage I thought I was a humming bird) wasuneventful enough except for Dallas at which point we (okay, I) took two wrong turns in quick sucession which put us a bitoff our way. Luckely I noticed and after some seriously questionable lane changes. We decided to ignore warnings about thestate of Louisianna and just drive through it to avoid a big detour. Our path took us through Montgomery which is where a lotof the peeps from New Orleans went. The place seemed fine though and the accents there are by far the best in America (with North Dekota a second best, if you've ever seen the film Fargo then you know exactly what they sound like.. "oh ya..").Infact. the whole LO., Alabama, Georga and Mississippi area have brillo accents.The drive went on to Alabama and Mississippi (the latter where we hit some heavy fog for an hour or so). We also very narrowlymissed a seemingly suicidal fox who ran infront of our car despite our best efforts to convince him it wasn't worth it.These mid west states are seriously hot. It was over 40 degrees C (keeping in mind it's not even summer still).It was dark by the time we hit Alabama so we loaded up on Caffine as obviously with 750 miles to go, we were going to be drivinginto the night. We saw a truck on fire not too long after 10pm. An omen to stop we thought? Probably, but sure keep drivin...Close to the Georga/Florida our speeding caught up with us.. A police car drove by, turned around and pulled us over. - "thereason I stopped you is I checked you at 72 in a 55 zone". We got a ticket but just a curtisy warning. Probably cause we'reIrish. He was actually really sound. We finished the last 300 miles down the i45(?) in the dead of the night with mostly no traffic and road trip music blairing.It was wierd to hit the second morning rush of a single drive approaching Orlando.We got to the house at 6:30am (GMT+5) after driving through 5 states and 2 time zones. It was the only way to end a road trip of such propoetions really. Good Times.