Well, this ‘migration’ took a little over 14 hours of driving.
Highlights of our trip:
1) Did you know that Wendy’s Restaurant and many of the
McDonald Convenience stores/gas stations clean
their‘women’s bathrooms at 4:30 a.m. in the morning?
Do you care?
Only if you have to go at 4:30 a.m. Now the question
most of you would ask yourselves is, “How would
Bermuda know this about BOTH places?’ The answer is
because We stopped at a McDonald’s but it was closed
so I went into the convenience store next store to use
the bathroom and the woman cleaning it said, “It’s
closed for cleaning.”
The cashier reassured me that the bathroom
would be available ‘in a few minutes’.... 15 minutes
later... it was still closed....ooookaay... Ms. Bladder-my
constant companion - who has gone through the turmoil
of my aging process, reassured me with her slight
pressure that there was no immediate need at this point;
I explained to DH the situation so we continued on with
our migration while keeping a lookout for someplace
open and 30 minutes later, glory be!! We found a Wendy’s
Brightly lit and OPEN. DH went into the Men’s bathroom
and I went.....to the Women’s bathroom NOT!!!! The sign
on the door said, ‘women’s bathroom “Closed for Cleaning.” DH came out and asked me if I was feeling better and I dragged him over to the Woman’s Bathroom door and pointed at the sign. By this time Ms. Bladder and me- pardon the pun- were “feeling PO’d”. it took another 15 minutes before we finally found an OPEN woman’s bathroom and Ms. Bladder and I found relief...
2) Did you know that a Hardy’s restaurant somewhere in
North Carolina offers a egg/cheese/ham ‘breakfast
sandwich’ at 5:30 a.m. and doesn’t think it should be
Heated? 10 miles down the road, we reached in the bag
and discovered this....
3) somebody is playing tricks with the ‘left lane closed’
signs on I-77..... we stayed in the right lane, inching
forward for 20 minutes in backed-up traffic and the Orange-white barrels blocking off the left lane with the huge electric arrow pointing to the right lane and were in awe that there wasn’t any construction- no trucks, no machines, no workers, no broken up cement, no newly laid asphalt... ONLY the signs and the flashing arrow.
4) We stopped to get gas and the cloud above the gas
station dumped a torrent of rain before we could get
From the gas pump to the station.... both of us
soaked....5 minutes after we left, the rain stopped and
Sun came out...we had 5 more incidents of these rain
storm ‘pockets’ before we got to our final destination.
Well, we are up North again, more or less in one piece...