Days 6 & 7 - Fayetteville & Savannah

Day 6 - Washington to Fayetteville

Well this is the part of the trip that involves driving & it's exciting! Might give my poor feet a rest today.
After another nice free breakfast we packed (again) & set off to the Interstate 95 for our 310 mile drive to Fayetteville. I'm the navigator, which is easy once we find the road as we stay on it until the slip road to the Red Roof hotel in Fayetteville. That's the reason we picked it as we need to carry on down that road tomorrow too.

The journey was relaxing, there are radio channels for 60's, 70's & 80's music, air con if we get too hot, cruise control, lovely rest areas with clean loos & vending machines if we want drinks or snacks & the other drivers on the road are so polite, no honking horns or trying to cut you up if you dare to pull out to overtake!

We arrived at the hotel about 3ish & our room is huge! 2 queen beds, large bathroom, loads of space to spread our stuff out & very clean. We decided to go to buy some food to cook in the microwave (in the room) & took a wrong turn somewhere so we had to go the scenic route! Got back in one piece, had some tea & read & watched tv. I'm having a real urge to watch 'Roseanne', 'Taxi', 'Cheers' & 'The Waltons'! Must see if the dvd's are cheap on Amazon when we get home! Do you remember any of these???

Day 7 - Fayetteville to Savannah

Some as yesterday, breakfast, packing & back on the I 95. Strange couple at breakfast - they arrived with a massive bag full of boxes of cut up fruit, their own bread etc. Neither of them even looked at anyone else or spoke to anyone. It takes all sorts!

Had a good drive with a stop at a rest area & arrived at the Super 8 in Savannah at 2.00pm. This room is even better than the last one - king sized bed, massive room, tv, microwave, fridge, coffee maker, lovely bathroom & all very new & clean. We had a snack then drove into Savannah to look around. The area by the river was lovely with a lot of stalls selling jewellery, paintings & other crafty things - Gemma would have loved it & made a fortune with her crafts!

Then we had such a downpour that the roads were like rivers & everyone was sheltering from it for about 15 minutes. Thankfully it stopped & we had a walk around looking at all the old houses before driving back & stopping at the Cracker Barrel for some food. It was just like you'd imagine a typical American diner to be, full of families, noisy in a good way & the portions were massive. So were a lot of the people eating there! Anyway, we were stuffed & couldn't manage a pudding so came back to relax in our hotel before the drive tomorrow. Thankfully we've got 4 nights at the next place.

I'll put a photo on but it won't do Savannah justice.

TTFN xx