Winter is the time many snowbirds head on down to warmer pastures, after enduring a few months of seemingly unceasing bitter cold. I was given the opportunity to venture down to Florida for a week after Christmas, which is a chance I most certainly snapped at! I packed my bag and found myself driving down on the i-75, through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and finally, 24 hours later, Florida. Having never driven for more than eight hours in one trip, I found the drive excruciatingly long. However, on the plus side, I got to steadily feel the temperatures rising, which built up the excitement. When we arrived, we were welcomed with a few celebratory glasses of wine (not the first celebration of the week-or the first drink!), and then crashed quite quickly, falling asleep the second
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