After crossing Texas, again we had dinner at Parrains in Baton Rouge (below). It was a Friday night and busy as hell. Just getting a parking space took about 10 minutes. We had a nice dinner amongst the birthday party celebrants, then continued down the road that night all the way to Slidell, forgetting to get gas first. We were deep in the red by the time we made it to the next gas station. We had stayed in a hotel across the road from another we had stayed at during one of our recent crossings.
We hit a bagel place in the morning then we were back on the road. They just opened a Buc-Ees in SE Alabama in January, the first outside of Texas. I'm sure this was to stem the tide of Busy Bees, a poor imitation, but still better than most places, which were going up everywhere in Florida. The pictures below still don't completely capture the scale of these places.
We made it to Tallahassee for dinner at the 4 Rivers BBQ. They must have caught onto people ordering the four meat feast to share between at least two people, because that was off the menu. Also off the menu was the bread pudding made from Krispy Kreme donuts. My arteries aren't going to clog themselves.
We got back in the car not sure how much farther we were going to make it that day. As we continued down the interstate we started to see some aspiring stunt drivers. Welcome to Florida! We were almost to Jax, just after dark, when traffic came to a standstill. We checked online and all lanes had been blocked a few miles ahead for a crash about 20 minutes before. After Florida Man led the way across the median we followed, back down the I10 west a couple miles to bypass all this. Even if it doesn't buy us much time I prefer to keep moving. We took SR 90 for a few miles past Baldwin, then got back to the I10 E. A little over an hour later when we arrived at our hotel in Jax they had just reopened the left lane past the wreck. Please be careful out there.
In the morning we went to a place called Jax Bread, which was so good we brought home a sliced loaf. We hit the used book/DVD store, then the Costco across the parking lot for some of their bacon, chicken salad, and a few more essentials, then we were back on the road north to Brunswick. The I95 traffic was the heaviest we'd seen crossing the country, and the driving even more aggressive. Yikes.
We got to the boat, almost five weeks after we had left. We turned down the AC, turned on the fridge and freezer, then settled in for the night, watching the first four episodes of Life (with Damien Lewis), followed by the first episode of Season 4 for Sherlock.
In the morning started working our boat departure lists.
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