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Time for another family road trip! It’s back to Cleveland for Thanksgiving.

We were using today just as a jump-start day for the drive, planning only to go as far as southern Georgia. This allowed us to spend most of the day decorating the inside of the house for Christmas (so it would be done when we get back from the trip), finish the packing, load up the Highlander, etc. At 4:45pm we finally hit the road.

We stopped for dinner around 7:30pm at the Ruby Tuesday in Lake City. Then it was just another hour’s drive north over the Georgia border to our first hotel in Valdosta at 9:45pm.

Driving stats: 4 hours; 254mi (probably our easiest day of the trip)