$100 a Day on a Southern Route
19.05.12
Courageously agreeing to be frugal along with me was Cris Kang, a Brazilian who, despite more than a decade in the United States, had spent so little time in the South that she was unfamiliar with grits and somewhat perplexed by the concept of... The quickest way to drive from the
Washington, D. C. , area to Savannah, Ga. , is to steel your nerves, grit your teeth and high-tail it for nine and a half hours down the monotonous, multilane, McDonald’s-laden highway called I-95. The route has one constant appeal — good barbecue — and, outside of gas expenses, it offers plenty of frugal options: bursts of Civil War history, alligator-filled wildlife reserves, old plantations and schlocky miniature golf courses. It’ll take you a lot longer — six days or so — but offers so much more: a mishmash of coastal and inland roads that form U. S. 17, from Winchester, Va. , as far as Savannah.
Source: New York Times (blog)