My drive to New Orleans
I drive cars cross country for some of my horse training friends from the different horse racing tracks. I had this one car planned for two months.
I was driving this 2014 Infinity QX56. It was a nice sport utility vehicle that has a lot acceleration. Acceleration as in I looked at speedometer and I was doing over speed limit faster then it seemed. in the 70 mph zones I kept it running about 80 miles per hour.
It's been freezing cold temperatures were I was at in Kentucky and I was waiting to go down south mainly for there warm weather even if just for a few hours. It was going to warm up in the 60's in Louisville for the one and only day that I already planned this drive. But it was going to rain all day. Which it did, It rained with a few storms my whole trip. I got all the way down to Birmingham, Alabama and just thought about checking on weather for the rest of the drive.
I seen it was going to rain rest of way down to New Orleans. So I figured I'll pull off at a rest area and get some rest. And I thought rain maybe over when I decided to finish my trip. It was warm In Birmingham at about 78 degrees and windy with rain I guess the whole night I slept for a few hours. I woke up a few hours later, cause sleeping in the S.U.V I was driving was uncomfortable to sleep in. It was still dark as I headed on early in the morning hours.
Later that morning I stopped for gas and it was cold and windy. I was thinking It's awful dang cold for being that close to Louisiana and I thought maybe since it was still early morning hours that it would pass over and be warm when the sun came out. But sun never did come out as I continued my drive. I got all the way to New Orleans and It happen that a cold front has come threw over night that I was unaware of with all the rain. I got to New Orleans and it was cold at 42 degrees. That's freezing to them people. I delivered the car to my customer's and they sent me in a cab to the airport. I was like, I drove all the way south for warm weather, But rain brung a cold front with it and ruined my weekend get away. Then I get to airport and wait about 3 hours cause My flight has been delayed coming out of Atlanta where they said the airport had some freeze advisories going on. Plane finally showed up a hour and a half later then planned and the delay caused me to miss my other connecting flight in Charlotte. I had to get another plane in Charlotte, North Carolina. That took another two hours. And I finally made it back home to 20 degrees in Kentucky.
My search for warm weather when I should have just stayed home. But if it was not for keeping my long time customer's happy. That's what keeps me going.