RV McCurdy's, Brad and Diane: The ride home

Tuesday afternoon 11 March 2025

Driving this piece of crap truck was excruciating to say the least! 😒 Rudy couldn't find a comfortable spot. He kept trying to get under my legs, Diane moved around trying to make him comfortable. Eventually she was on the tiny middle seat and Rudy was on the passenger seat. We made it to the hotel in Brunswick Ga about 5:30pm.

We fueled up and are all ready for a long hard day of driving tomorrow. Only problem is we have all the refrigerator/freezer stuff with us and just a small frig in the room. Diane talked to the hotel staff, and they had a big freezer we put the whole freezer bag in it. We ate what we could from the frig food put the rest in the mini room frig and threw a few items out.

Wednesday 12 March 2025

We didn't wake up until Diane's alarm went off a 7am. A bit late but we got moving. Until we had breakfast, packed coolers, retrieved our freezer food and loaded the truck it was almost 9am. We pulled back on I-95 north heading to Roanoke Rapids.

Now you all know we have had a motorhome for last 15 years😀and now we don't😢. As we travel up the highway, we talked about all the places we haven't stopped, all just along the highway. Then we talked about the first thing we need to do as soon as we get home. Then we pass a campground we stayed at and remember the times we stay there. Very mixed emotions.

As the morning turned to afternoon we stopped for lunch at a nice rest area ate sandwiches, cleaning more food from are coolers. By 4/4:30 we realized we would not make our travel goal😕. A traffic snarl and just heavy traffic exhausted us mentally and physically. Diane found us a hotel 75 miles short of our goal.

We parked at 5:30 or so, carried all our coolers/clothes and Rudy to the third floor, took several trips and an hour until we were done. Hotel was dirty but functional. $75 pet fee (crazy). The only thing that was good was the BBQ restaurant right beside us. Food was great. We showered this evening, I took a bag or two of stuff back down to the truck and we set the alarm for 6am.

Thursday 13 March 2025

Much better this morning we were up, packed, and or I-95 before 8am. As we drove, we talked about stopping one more night or just drive until we get home. As the day wore on the thought of carrying all our stuff into another hotel of unknown quality provided momentum to keep driving. Much cooler today. To cold and windy to have lunch outside at a rest area. We stopped at a Buc-ee's😆 for fuel and lunch and right back in the truck. At this point Rudy will NOT get in the truck, I have to pick him up and put him in. He and Diane are still playing musical seats. 😏 Rudy gets his way most of the time.

We were wearing out, driving a rented truck towing a trailer, driving 60 mph on I-95 (55mph on rental agreement) so to change up a bit we picked up route 17 to 15 for last leg of our journey. We are coming home to a house with nothing in it and a ton work to do. Probably a little delirious we talked about stopping at Beckley's RV to check out their inventory......No we did not! We pulled in the driveway at 5:30PM! Exhausted, we unloaded the refrigerator and freezer food. Diane opened the refrigerator, what someone broke into the house and stocked our frig!!! It was Beverly. So, we had a wonderful bowl of hot homemade chili.

Make it home!!

Not much time to rest, rental equipment must be returned tomorrow.

We are home and no PET fee. 😁

Friday 14 March 2025

We slept wonderful last night. Diane made us breakfast (western omelet), more food Beverly provided, while I got the car off the trailer and unloaded the truck. We returned the equipment, stopped at Marzoni's for lunch and went home.

Boxes everywhere! No idea where anything is. The first couple of boxes were packed neatly and labeled. By the end just stuffed stuff wherever it fit. By happy hour Diane found us enough belongs to shower and change clothes for a couple of days.

The deer seem to have taken over the place. You look out front 5 of them. Go to the back of the house 9 more. We had some wine and watched them play