1000 AD - Exodus

So begins the move to Clayton, North Carolina from Tifton, Georgia. We left Tifton on Saturday, May 1st and I count this as the beginning of our six month road trip. In a previous exciting entry in this journal, I mentioned the scope of our trip (going from California to North Carolina). You may ask....how did the TC get from North Carolina to California? That I am afraid is the subject of a later entry, it does not fit into the story as of the moment.

So let us stay focused and take a view of where the TC went on this leg of the journey.

The stops we made going to Clayton were Saint Simons Island, Georgia and Hilton Head, South Carolina. We stayed in these two locations to fill in the last of our "on the coast" places that we had not been to. On previous non TC trips we had visited Jekyll Island, Charleston, and Savannah. All of them wonderful places to see. 

Now to lay a little more groundwork. Why were we in Tifton to begin with? Why are we leaving?

To answer why we are in Tifton in a nutshell: After much movement in my life in different career paths the latest reinvent was as a community college math instructor. To do this (we were living in North Carolina at the time) I returned to college to take enough math courses (took about a year) to obtain the necessary college credits to teach math. All this was done at the ripe old age of 53 back in 2006-2007. It was a VERY strange feeling sitting in classes with students half my age. When I finished, I received an offer from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton to teach math. We love to go to places we have not been. And Tifton, in its own way, is a very exotic place to be. Thus we moved to Tifton.

And, why we left Tifton: There is not a single answer for this. I will mention the two main ones. The first one is the easiest to write down. Our daughter and her husband and his parents all live in Clayton. She is expecting our first grandchild and she wanted us to live closer to them. As I said, pretty simple reason. The other reason revolves around my restless personality. After much planning I was able to glue together a lifestyle where we could afford to live. After all, eating is important! Thus we left Tifton.

Here is our moving PODS being carted away from our house and sent to Clayton. House in a can!!!!

Here are the two vehicles (in the hotel parking lot prior to heading to Saint Simons) that would form the  caravan going to Clayton. Both tremendous and purposeful cars, one for distance and one for speed.