Safe and Semi-sound

Well, today was another of those great ones, a red letter day, a day to remember, to mark it in the book. We started out from Atlanta at 9:00 am as the fog was the fog of fogs and covered the whole of Northern Georgia. But I convinced my two traveling buddies that we could drive out of it about 30 miles South of Atlanta and would you not know that is just what we did, and it really was not that bad either. All the drivers were slower then normal, only drove about 60mph instead of 80mph. So all went well and we were on the way to the Tampa area as per the prearranged plan as agreed by all who were concerned, that is me and the two traveling buddies. Another 8 hours or so of driving depending on the number of rest stops needed, and we would be at the next stop. However as we were some distant yet from that Tampa area, one of the traveling buddies made mention of how she hates the Tampa area and what about just driving through to Marco, rather then spend the money on a hotel room(in the Tampa area) ( that she hates) how about finding out if we can get into the house a day early, even if there is a fee. This was determined to be the case and the fee was the same as the room in the hotel( in the Tampa area) ( that she hates) so it was cancel the room and drive on through. 11 hours after leaving Atlanta we made it to Marco Island and got the keys in the lock box and opened the house, unloaded the cars, had some pizza and brew and set about to put our things in some fashion of order. Of course we are now able to celebrate the New Year in the comfort of the house rather in some hotel room( in the Tampa area) ( that she hates) Happy New Year!
This was a much better plan, and we should have set that one in motion in the first place, but hind sight has always been better the foresight. So here we are at last, a slight bit of frazzle, I am so proud of Patty for driving all that way, what a trooper my live long buddy is.