Tuesday, Dec. 4 - A few things of interest to our devoted readers. First, the cost of gas. In Pennsylvania, we paid $2.75 per gallon. In Virginia, $2.25. Here in South Carolina, we've seen prices in the $1.90 range. Makes quite a difference when loading up 40 gallons at a time. And oddly enough, diesel gas is a dollar a gallon more than regular stuff.

Secondly, the weather: we are in a motel for the 3rd night in a row, mainly because it's going down to plus 2 tonight, and we're not quite ready to deal with that. But we will be tomorrow, as we've booked in at one of our favorite parks, Skidaway State Park, just over the Georgia border. We're booked in for three nights, despite the fact it will be zero C tomorrow night. We'll hunker down and hope the furnace works. A big storm is coming in on the week-end with lots of rain, so first things Sat. morning, we'll head for as far south as we can get, to avoid the big rainfall. Good thing we decided to come this way, as the weather in New Orleans is not at all promising.

Third, I continue to fumble my way along the route. This morning I turned the wrong way out of the motel parking lot, and after a couple of miles, realized my error and turned around. Later today, we pulled into the S. Carolina Welcome Center, and I chose the 'car' side of the entrance instead of the 'truck' side. Lo and behold, there was no room for an r.v., so I had to maneuver up the wrong way out of the truck exit, holding up a big transport while doing so. By then, I wondered where the hell my head had gone.

Tonight, we had a very traditional southern dinner in a little restaurant across the street. No beer. Fried green tomatos. Mac and Cheese, and excellent fried chicken. Loved the tomatos. Our server is a gal who has a 4 year old child, is in her third year of  Nursing, maintains an A average, works in the restaurant in the evenings, and spends two week-ends a month looking after a 95 year old patient. Talk about a motivated young lady. Who says there's no hope for our young?

Her colleague, a cute tall young thing, had the eye of a little Hispanic guy, who is obviously a regular customer. He was gazing at her with love in his eye (or lust?), and after he'd left, she told us after I'd pointed out the obvious attraction he has for her, that he's proposed to her 4 times while paying his bill. Not going to happen. Poor guy!

CNN is front and center. We watched some of the Fox news channel last night, with Lew Dodds. One is as bad as the other. Lots on the Bush funeral, with much positive feeling expressed for his contribution. So far we have had no political discussion with locals. Good thing. We'll keep it that way, but always with an ear to the ground to get a sense of how people are feeling about things.

That's it for now. The journey continues. Stay tuned. More later.