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A superlative weekend of miscommunication and wasted mileage.
Background: My friend from the Air Force who I've kept in touch with all these years, now lives in central Tennessee.
His mother, who had been out of communication for about 6 months due to dementia, died and was cremated, something I was all too familiar with.
His father's ashes had been scattered in the ocean off Virginia, and that was the eventual destination for her, but she was originally from Jesup Ga (see Pin) and there was a memorial for her down there.
I had planned on going, since I'd known her since we met around 1980 in Tucson, then he asked me if I'd play some songs for the memorial.
Of course I agreed. He came here to my house in a rented vehicle and I had originally planned on riding with him but then word came that my piano teacher had died and HER memorial in my hometown (Claxton is only about 50 miles from Jesup)so I drove my car, planning on going to Clax on Sunday then coming home.
His Son flew into Atlanta, he went and picked him up while I went and picked up a niece, who didn't ride with me.
So I'm following them, while the son is using the waze app
That maddening route is how we went. I drove almost all the way to my hometown, then BACK 50 miles to the west. What a "Wazest" 🤣
Then, my friend had given me the itinerary, which included the "Econo Lodge" as where he would be staying, I rented a room there for my niece.
Found out he had changed HIS reservations to the Quality Inn
!worldmappin 31.59605 lat -81.86989 long Where the rest stayed d3scr
Just a few feet apart, I ended up staying there, because there was no refund and my niece wanted to stay closer to the guys and got her own room.
4 people ended up staying in 4 separate rooms.
↑My niece and I in her room prior to the memorial↑
The memorial went well, then there was a large dinner for the family.
↑My friend and two uncles↑
↓Two of his more attractive cousins, mother and daughter↓
So then we went back to my friends room where he, his son and I started to drink and party.
My niece had said she'd been introduced to "Gin and Tonic" so I bought those supplies.
She had taken a nap, showed up after we started getting rowdy then left.
I ended up drinking almost all of it alone, blacked out and my friend took me back around the corner to my room.
Now I had planned to get up and drive home for my piano teachers memorial, but Sunday morning came and there was NO WAY I could get up let alone get behind the wheel, so I got another night in my room and slept for nearly 24 hr all told.
The trip down had taken almost 5 hrs with that stupid app, I came home in a more sensible route
I was home in less than 4 hrs.
That was one expensive trip for me 😒