Blizzards,The reasons why I hate Georgia, Uhaul, Texas Time and No gators for me...

About three weeks ago, My hubbs was asking me if I had ever gone on "Leave". Of course not, I've never been married to a soldier and I've never been in the Military. He just laughed and said I was in for a treat. That sarcastic tone in his voice made me think that maybe we should have just stayed home, But of course, We're McPhates, and I was a stubborn asshole BEFORE we got married, no reason to change now.

Let's just start off with the "Signs" of why we should have stayed home.

• Laundry was NOT dry before we left. Coming home to Mildew laundry...gross.
• CY was LATE bringing the car over.
• We didn't start packing until 11:30 pm, we signed out at 12.
• Could NOT find where Dustin was supposed to sign out at. We wandered aimlessly around Ft. Bragg for two hours trying to find command.
• Right around the SC/NC border it started to snow.
• We started running out of gas in the middle of NOWHERE.
• The GPS took us the back route into BFE GA.
• We got stuck in someones driveway in the afore mentioned BFE.
• Just as we got UNSTUCK, we ran out of gas at the bottom of a hill, and almost ended up in a ditch trying to make it to the top of a hill covered in 4 inches of ice.
• Got a tow to the TOP of the hill, only to find out that our POV which is front wheel manual drive, has bald tires.
• Got ripped off by the tow truck driver that the Cops called to tow us to the gas station. $125 for a 1/2 mile tow. 
• Got accused of loitering and being homeless as we waited for our SECOND tow truck driver to come take us all the way BACK to Augusta to get new tires.
• All the tire shops were either closed or couldn't get our tires for two days.
• Had to rent a UHAUL just to make it out of GA.
• Husband put DIESEL gas in an UNLEADED tank.
• Drove 10-25 miles an hour for almost a whole day trying to make it out of GA.
• Once in Atlanta, I-20 was closed and all streets leading onto I-20 were blocked off.
• Wandered around in circles in GA till we could make it on to I-20.
• As soon as we made in ON to the stupid freeway, we almost slid off a bridge.
• Had to sleep in the cab of the Uhaul. 3 seats, Dustin and I...and the dog.

Now if this trip seems awful, it was.

Being home was great though. It made me realize that as much as I THINK I hate NC in my head, I hate it more...

It went far to fast, and I didn't get to see everyone that I wanted to see. But at least I  had the opportunity to see my family and some close friends.

So...Here are some of the pictures from our trip.