Wednesday October 5th 2016

I got underway at 9:30 this morning. It was a bright and sunny day with a gusty wind. The wind was not related to the impending hurricane, but it made travel a two hands on the steering wheel task.

This was my first experience with Interstate 75 through Georgia. It was a fine three lane road with a good surface. One thing I really notice is the smoothness of the road surface. Every bump, such as concrete road joints, get transmitted through out the motorhome. On the down side, the scenery is punctuated by more billboards than you could possibly read. In many areas both sides of the highway have advertisements every few hundred yards.

Site 128 at the Forsyth Georgia KOA. Sites in this area are very close. The fireplace is a potbelly stove like contraption.

I am about 180 miles north of Florida and about the same distance from the coast. This is probably much further than I needed to move to get out of the way of the storm, but once I decided to run I wanted to be safe from any variation in the storms path. This campground is full with others getting away from the storm’s path. When I arrived around 1:30 there were four rigs in front of me at check in. I needed to wait in the road for space to open up in the campground driveway before I could register.

Traffic on the way north was heavy. I don’t think it was caused by the storm, just normal week day traffic. The evening news indicated that other highways coming directly from the coast, like Interstate 16 from Savannah, were clogged by evacuees. On I-75 the one give away that a storm was about to hit in Florida was the south bound traffic. Every few minutes a group of Electric Company trucks or tree cutting trucks could be seen heading south to support the post storm cleanup.

I plan to spend the weekend here. Where I go from here is dependent on the path of the storm, the damage it does and my mood. I have things I want to do in Florida, but not a set time line. Getting into the middle of the aftermath of the storm or even the storm itself should it loop as currently forecast is not something I want to do.