FL 2 TN Day 2: Carolina Steakhouse
Jetlag is still on our side, so we woke up easily around 6am and had showered, eaten breakfast, checked out and were loaded up and on the road soon after 8am. Long before lunch we had crossed from Florida into Georgia on I-95!
Call me crazy, but I’ve really missed IHOP’s Eggs Benedict for the six months we’ve been away, and was itching for the chance to set things straight at our lunch stop near Riceboro, GA. As usual we were able to pick up a hotel coupons booklet on the way out of IHOP, and found a decent looking hotel in Hardeeville, South Carolina to spend the night.
The skies grew grayer, and the air colder, as the day progressed, but we still had an hour of daylight when we crossed from GA into SC, so we decided to press on a little further. At a shade over 200 miles for the day when we arrived at the next hotel from the coupon booklet in Walterboro, it was starting to get dark, and we were definitely feeling the cold set in. Amazing that the weather can be so different only a few hundred miles further North than yesterday’s blazing sun!
The Rice Plantation Inn, Walterboro was quite a treat as it turned out. Despite the low price for the night, the room was large, clean and well kept. Better still, there’s a fabulous Steak House right next door, where we enjoyed a very American steak and baked potato dinner.
The weather forecast predicts rain storms moving into the Carolinas around noon tomorrow, so we’ll have to make another early start to cover as many miles as we can, before an early check in at our next stop to avoid getting soaked in the afternoon. Perhaps we should have found out how much colder and wetter it is in these parts before we set off from Florida in our Summer biking gear?