August 1,2013 8:13am
Let's just say Georgia's first impression is something we will never forget. I drove through Georgia's first city, Valdosta with no problems. Reaching the city limits of Adel is where the trouble began. I was exiting I-75 to find a gas station, but what do I see in my rear view mirror? A cop. His lights were flashing and he was speeding up right behind me; he came out of nowhere.
This is the aftermath of SPEEDING in Adel, Georgia
...Five minutes later
We were on a hunt for a Shell gas-station that our GPS was leading us to. Turns out there was never a Shell in Adel and due to the fact that I just got a speeding ticket, my mind was everywhere. Then all of a sudden, the only thing I could hear is Casey saying," Red light! Red light! Red light!"
My first instinct was to slam on the brakes. The immediate stop sent the rack that we had used to hold all of our luggage, flying over the top of the car and breaking right in the middle of the street. When it flew over it scraped the hood of the car and completely broke off the arm of one of the windshield wipers. JUST MY LUCK! Panic was in the air and thank goodness Adel had a lot of police because they helped us load our stuff in the car. Once we got everything in the car, we pulled into the nearby Days Inn.
Later this day
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Luckily we had this incident on local roads near not only a hotel, but O'REILLYS. I swear we went to O'Reilly's like a hundred times this day, or at least it felt like it. We eventually gave up on a search for a rack and had our handy helpers Stacy and Stephanie help us out finding proper tie downs.
Can you guess which one is Stacy? and which one is Stephanie?
On the road again
Even though we didn't get to adventure in Helen or slide down big rocks or camp, we still learned something from Georgia; Never EVER speed and there are amazing people you can meet who might just save the day.. Thank you, Georgia for making us stronger then when we first entered.
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