Down and back from Clinton

I got to drive back up to Clinton, South Carolina yesteday to help Kate with removing her stuff from her apartment in Clinton and return to Griffin. When I got to the apartment, Kate had not done much to ready herself and her stuff to travel to Georgia. In addition, she was more hungry than ready to pack and get on the road.

So we drove over to Whiteford's, a nearby burger place, and I fed Kate and me for about $14.00. Afterward, we drove back to the apartment and began to demolish her room so as to enable us to pack the mattress and boxsprings in the Explorer, throw the bedsheets and pillows, a plastic chair, and some extraneous items into the Explorer and then start on the Toyota with everything else.

Kate obviously got the better of the deal, driving the Toyota, since the entire rear of the Explorer was covered up with large boxes, chairs, bedclothes, etc.; whereas, the Toyota still had room to peak through the clothes hanging from the temporary rack hanging in the backseat to notice if someone was behind her when she backed up or if someone was gaining on her as we drove back to Georgia.

We finally got ready to leave, and headed out, in caravan, through Clinton, then on to the interstate, back to Georgia.

As I drove on, I noticed that the back hatch door of the Explorer was loose, so I called Kate and asked her to stop at the Georgia Welcome Center. After making the stop and adjusting the back hatch, we enterd the Welcome Center, looked at some of the exhibits and headed back to the cars.

As I said adieu to Kate again, I looked down at the license tag on the Toyota. I noticed suddenly that someone had placed a tiny Florida Gator head over the Georgia Peach on my license plate. As I bent down to remove the offending gator head, I asked Kate if she knew of anyone who might like to deface my car with such a sticker. She could only think of two people who might commit such a dastardly act.

The sticker removed, we headed back to Griffin, and arrived only several hours late.
But Home Sweet Home is such, no matter what the hour. It is good to have Kate back.