The Road Home

After Zorbing the drive to South Carolina seemed like it would be an easy one. It was the opposite.  Driving through South Carolina was a daunting task, despite my claims that an 8-hour drive no longer seemed that difficult.  It felt as if the state would never end and our destination was on the coast, all the way in Myrtle Beach.  However, we did have an opportunity to see why they are called the Smoky Mountains and we also drove through out fourth National Park.

Smokey Mountains

We detoured a bit away from the beach to visit Mike at work in Conway, SC.  Of course, we ate some much-needed pizza, even if it was Dominoes.  We also had some much-needed cocktails when Mike finally got off work.  After telling as many stories as we could to fill Mike in on our trip, we went to bed after 5am.  This was fine with us because we did not plan on getting out of bed anytime before noon.  It’s that key word ‘bed’ that made us so excited.  No longer would we be sleeping on an air mattress.  And sure enough we did not rise until the afternoon was well underway. 

The day was spent in a relaxing fashion.  There were no National Parks or Historical Archives to explore.  We didn’t have to drive 800 miles to get to our next adventure.  We just simply sat on the couch and watched Cars. Yes, the Pixar movie and then Cars 2, it’s thrilling sequel. 

At one point we went to Wal-Mart, our new favorite store, to try and get Josh’s film developed.  However, you can no longer get film developed in less than a week.  1-hour photo developing no longer exists in this country.  After doing some research, Josh also came to the conclusion that because the pictures are valuable and possibly irreplaceable, we are going to send the film out to a professional company for development.   So you will have to wait to see those pictures, but I can guarantee it will be worth the wait.

We finished our stay in Myrtle Beach and headed towards New Jersey.  It was a surreal moment when we realized that we were heading home.  We were only 12 hours from completing our journey.   North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware were the only states that stood in our path. 

The highlights of the drive included Josh NOT getting pulled over in Virginia, getting gas on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., and realizing that we could stop off in Belmar to catch some of the Shots and Goggles show at Connelly Station.

We arrived in Belmar around midnight.  Needless to say, Chuck and Sean were pretty surprised to see us.  We made this stop the official last stop on our tour of the USA and neither of us would have had it any other way.  We were evacuated from the bar at one point due to someone pulling the fire alarm.  Despite it being amusing, it was also at that moment I realized I needed to tinkle.  Soon enough we were let back into the bar and the music continued.  We had some beers and sang some songs.  It was awesome, but left us quite tired.

When we got to Josh’s apartment, the only thing on my mind was sleep.  And that’s what we did.