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Breakfast was in Stuart, Florida with Donna’s sister, her husband and his mother. Their traditional Saturday morning breakfast is eaten out at a cool little place called the Sunset Diner. We got them to deviate from normal today, first by eating with us and secondly by doing it an hour earlier so we could start our trip back. Felt a little weird ordering the Sunset Breakfast, but I managed to eat the two pancakes, two eggs and two sausage links (I gave Donna the two bacon strips.)

If you tell Google Maps you want to go from Stuart, FL to Aiken, SC it will tell you that it is 505 miles following a route of I-95 until you get just inside South Carolina, then take US321 to US278 and it should take you less than 8-1/2 hours (that is kinda the way we went down, but for some reason it took us almost 2 days.) We despise I-95 because it is usually very busy (it is the shortest way north to south) and are willing to go to great lengths to avoid it. We took the Florida Turnpike diagonally northwest towards Ocala, joined up with I-75 to Lake City where we had lunch. We split 3 Krystals, 3 Krystal Chicks and a side salad.

Just north of I-10 we got off the Interstate and Donna guided us on a mixture of county roads, state highways and US highways to home. Through White Springs & Benton, Florida. Through Fargo, Homerville, Argyle, Waycross, Blackshear, Surrency, Glennville and Claxton (fruitcake anyone?) before we stopped in Statesboro, GA for dinner at JaMaN Caribbean Cafe for dinner. I had the Jerk Pork with Black Beans and Rice, Donna had the Chick Pea Soup.

From Statesboro we kept north on US301 through Sylvania and into South Carolina. From there we took the ol’ familiar route home of SC3 to SC125 through the bomb plant and up Whiskey Road. If you plot the way we went using Google maps it will tell you it is a little over 600 miles and should take 12 and a half hours. I didn’t keep track of the miles, but the clock was dead on as we left Florida around 9:00 AM and we pulled into our driveway about twenty after nine at night.