Ze trip, she is concluded!

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Yeah, I actually got home closer to 13:00ish, but wanted to fall over unconscious for a bit before doing anything coherent [starts fussing with last couple of posts to tidy them up].

Atlanta, longer version:

Busy-busy!  I got into the Marietta area around 19:00, and since I had a delivery to make (more on that, of course) in Orlando-ish, had both time to kill and... well, it was just early yet.  I knew snowjag and lazydwarf lived there; I've never seen their house since they settled into it, and haven't had a chance to see just them in ages; thankfully, I caught them just in time.  Ditto delamancha, as far as the 'I know she's there somewhere' part. mincot, on the other paw, snagged me, so while sit_good_dog was kindly looking for a dogpark for the Cutest White Boxer Travelling from Miami to stretch his legs in, I was filling out my dance card *bats lashes*.

After some hasty directions, everything got sorted.  I visited with the two closest for nearly an hour; D'Argo got some pats coming and going, but it's a cats-first house and therefore he couldn't come in.  Lewis Park, which is an 'unofficial' dogpark, was only five minutes away.  We met a nice pseudo-Beardie and his human.  Clyde (yes, the dog) was both friendly to all and completely unintimidated by D'Argo, playing tag with him and generally being very cute.  (He's a shelter adoption, so his human wasn't sure either what breed/s he is nor exactly how old.)

[frowns at timestamps on Macon and Valdosta/state line entries, puzzled]

Off to meet mincot next!  After a bit of confusion because some gremlin went and mixed up all the street-name signs, I found her sitting outside the Whole Foods market next to a Borders... and not that far from the Dragon*Con hotels, hmm.  File for hopeful future reference.

We both had nice heathy Odwalla juices and talked mostly dogs, Andrea occasionally and expertly assisting passers-by in their appreciation of D'Argo.  We also talked Serenity and even spoiler-protected our enthusiastic comments in case of said passers-by being stealth Browncoats with scheduling problems.  She agreed that 'Joss, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!' was a perfect quote for one situation in the movie.  YOU know which one *knowing wink*.  Or you will.  It was an entirely pleasant visit, and I'm glad she managed to get LJ text messaging (at least, I think that's what she used!) to work.

delamancha, I'm sorry I missed you!  Whah! :/

Valdosta:

Expletive deleted Citgo had fuel priced in the $2.60-range if I'd only waited another bloody 17 miles.  ARGH!

Orlando:

myfanwy and I had found this totally psychotic Halloween decoration, consisting of a roughly life-sized black cat, cute little Halloween-witches'-hat on its head.  The cat has a pressure switch in its paw; it starts meowing normally, then disturbingly... then maniacally, while its head spins in a possessed manner.

TOTALLY Alysoun.  Really.  Even if I can't find a picture of the blasted thing on-line.

So I trundled down I-75 to the Turnpike to I-4, off the southbound parking lot, good thing I was headed north expressway, and found the house with no difficulty at all.  Had a nice visit, the cat was indeed perfect, and was also informed we've got a tropical wave passing over.  Lovely.  This meant, yes, heavy intermittent rain alllll the way home.  Also high humidity in general, and southerly winds.

It's pouring here now, in fact.  It'll help keep down the dust from the road plumbing they're still doing.

I stopped making 'marker' posts, though, 'cause bloody Treo input was starting to hurt too much!  My left wrist has to twist against the steering wheel at an unnatural angle for me to do either keyboard input (if it's light enough to see the keyboard) or screen text-input (but I'm not used to my new application for that yet).  I already know exactly how long Florida takes, anyway. ^_^

Next time... more coordination! ;)