The "The Trip to Georgia. The Next Day(s)", edition

Good Monday morning. What a wonderful time we've had here in Augusta. I left off with us getting the rental car at Hartsfield Airport.  We made our way to the freeway and eventually got on the freeway to Augusta. No. I didn't get GPS. I'd mapped out the route before we left Las Vegas. And I used the map on the iPad. The trip was uneventful. We arrived around 5:00.  As soon as we entered the hotel, I could see all of my beautiful boxes of dialysis equipment behind the desk. We asked for assistance to get the  machine out of the car. We got a young man to help. He was surprised to receive the tip. That being said, he assisted us for the next 15 minutes!  He delivered the all the packages to us and unloaded them. And when we were trying to enter through the back door of the hotel he magically appeared and unlocked the door!  Lol. Anyway. After we got all the dialysis stuff and unpacked we headed out to dinner.  We let Shawn know we were in town. She wasn't able to meet us because she had a lecture that evening. But we would be driving to her dig site on Friday. 

Friday morning we woke up. While Brian was in the bathroom I noticed the largest black insect I'd ever seen on the ceiling. Huge!  As large as my hand. Brian went to the front desk. He returned with a broom. But by then the insect had disappeared. And we never saw it again. However. We always seemed to look up the entire time we were there!  Lol. Anyway. We needed to get to Shawn's location by 8:15 AM. She is in Edgefield, South Carolina. About 25 miles from our hotel. The route was pretty easy. Take the interstate across the Savannah River into South Carolina to exit 5 and head north. The interstate became the Strom Thurmond highway once we left Georgia. Once we exited the freeway we entered some kind of sort of rural land. Lots of churches. Lots of large nurseries. Lots of churches. Lots of roadside produce stands. Lots of churches.  And lots and lots of peach trees. Including signs for a local peach festival on Saturday. As a side note the speed limits changed frequently. Brian told me at one point a SC State police car was following him for a while and of course Brian was adjusting the speed of the car as directed. I was wondering why we sped up and slowed down. Eventually the police got tired of following us and u-turned away. 

We entered Edgefield. Little little town. Yet it had 2 car dealerships.  Lol. Before we knew it, the Edgefield Inn was in front of us...this is where the kid is staying. Text her to let her know we're there. She comes down, and other members of the team trickle down. Her advisor drives up.  Eventually the entire team arrives. The hotel is the staging location. We leave from there to go to the dig site. It's about a 10 minute drive. We turn into a field. Lol. Big ole sunny hilly rut-filled difficult to walk on field. Did I mention it was humid?  The field has several tents set up. One tent has a picnic table chairs. This is where the students unloaded the water coolers and chairs and started applying sunscreen and bug spray. One tent was where the excavation was occurring. There was another tent a ways away, but it was up a hill and it was hot and humid and the ground was horribly uneven. I wasn't heading there. There was a big trailer on the premises, on loan from a South Carolina university, a portajohn over by the fence. And way way in the back was an old abandoned bus. Shawn said it was a segregation bus. 

She was telling us about the site and the history. Lol. She was  in effect was giving us lecture about the subject. Her advisor gave us a binder about the dig site. We we duly impressed. But. It was hot and humid and I was tired of standing. Lol. We stayed about 20 minutes and they needed to get to work.  We headed out, retraced our steps to get back to the interstate. But. We got sidetracked by a roadside produce stand. You know I'm missing this in Nevada.  We purchased some peaches, tomatoes and cucumbers. Did I mention we had a kitchen with utensils in our hotel room?  I made a tomato and cucumber salad. :-D  Once we returned to Augusta, we stopped at Target to get some supplies and Brian set up the dialysis machine. I started my treatment. And just before it finished Shawn came to spend the weekend with us!  I always get a 1 bedroom suite with the soda bed. Again, if you look, you can one at a reasonable rate. And this time were staying at the Home2 Suites by Hilton. Not bad. 

After treatment we headed off to dinner. We went to a local Italian restaurant, Giuseppe's. Small, but crowded. And the food was delicious! And we ordered a pizza to go for later and whatnot. Besides, the kid likes pizza. Which sounds greedy because we all had to take home the food we didn't finish. Lol. We came home all full. Made plans for Saturday. And went to bed. The kid was tired..she'd been at work all day. And work for her was excavating in the hot humid weather for 7 hours. Oh yeah. It was cut short. Thunderstorms rumbled through the area. Brian and I were watching the trees bending during the gusts of wind while I was doing treatment ... Hoping there'd be no power outages.....

That's it for today. Long again!  Dialysis angle?  I did dialysis. In the bed. I don't like doing it in the bed, but that's it for traveling. More to come later. Heading back to hot as hell Las Vegas later on today. Lol. Enjoy your day!!!