Reflections of My Travel

Here we are again. And another 13 hour drive. Turns out Tennessee is a long state to drive across.

After getting up at 0600 to go kayaking, sitting in morning meetings, checking out of the hotel, going to see a movie, and wasting the rest of the afternoon driving around waiting for the dinner reception to start, we finally left Sandestin around quarter of eleven Saturday night. We had to be in Myrtle Beach by 1600 Sunday so we had to drive through the night. We’ve done that before, but not after such a long, tiring day. It was pitiful. We pretty much drove in hour shifts (he drove an hour or so while I slept and vice-versa) until about 0500 when we were both just too tired to drive any more. We pulled into a well-lit gas station and pulled a blanket over us to tent out the light and both slept in the back seat until it was just too hot. We ended up reaching the Kingston Plantation, where the RLNC (Residential Lenders of North Carolina) Convention was being held at about 1530. It was a long, long, long day. And we were on again…

So here we are back in Sandestin for the third time this year. This time it was the ACFA (Alabama Consumer Finance Association) Convention. This is a nice small comfortable group. We did get up early (6 comes in morning hours too???) Saturday morning and went kayaking around the bay. That was nice. We got a two seater, sit-on-top kayak and spent about an hour rowing around through some little secluded waterways (saltflats?). There was also a talking parrot at the marina who said hello to me as he tried several times to reach out for me to take him. I told Randal that he wasn’t happy there and wanted to go home with me but Randal wouldn’t hear it. :`-( So Sad. I tried to get the parrot to quack but he just got confused and reached out to me some more.