Day 7 - Virginia to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

To move, to breath, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.
   - Hans Christian Andersen

I hope the rest of the trip doesn't fly by as fast as the first six days!  Do we really have to say goodbye today??  There are so many more things to do and see AND EAT in the DC area!  Guess we will just have to plan another trip to Tim and Donna's.

For our send-off this morning, Donna prepared an egg bake and hash brown potatoes.  We packed up the minivan and headed down the road a bit before 9am.  Even though storms and rain were predicted, our route weaved us in between most of the showers, and we ended up at the Omni Hilton Head Ocean Front Resort some eight plus hours later under sunny skies.

At a rest stop parking lot just across the South Carolina line, a man in a car with New York license plates noticed our Iowa plates and asked us how tall the corn was.  We were just glad he didn't ask how the potato crop was doing or we would've been inclined to tell him that the trees are packed full of them this time of year.

The feeling of the warm ocean breeze is indescribable.  After a much needed meal break inside the HH Prime restaurant at the hotel, we made our way down to the beach to dip our feet in the waves.