These East Coast trips are perhaps even more susceptible to inclement weather. The weather isn’t worse, but the travel is more urban, and a bit of rain can really tie things up. We’ll take two days, including longer day on Saturday, to get from southwest Georgia to southeast New Hampshire. It’s a 1,245 mile journey, taken at a 63.7mph pace. The first night day will end, theoretically, after about the 510 mile mark, leaving a monstrous second day of travel.

DAY ONE (Friday)

The remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon, which brought heavy rain to the Carolinas is now drifting northwestward along the Gulf Stream. The rotation wrought by the storm throughout he Eastern Seaboard is continuing to bring some clouds and spotty rain showers, especially in northern exposures of the Appalachians, and even as far south as the Smokey and Blue Ridge Mountains. Fortunately, this does not include Georgia, but there will be some drizzle and overcast in the Carolinas, leading to additional slowdowns through the Piedmont and Charlotte. Traffic will be thinner, but the spits and starts of rain will continue to Christianburg, the city at the Blacksburg exit in Virginia.

DAY TWO (Saturday)

I’ve got something from the good news department: Our route is not taking us through DC, Philadelphia or New York City. This is great, because it means we will avoid all the traffic brought upon by a stationary boundary setting up between the remnants of Gordon and a wave rippling through northern Ontario. We are likely to see rain in at least 4 states, starting around Winchester, Virginia, continuing through West Virginia and Maryland, and continuing to Pennsylvania. The rain will start to wind down as we approach Allentown. Even after that point, however, we will be arriving in the moisture rich environment in the wake of Gordon. While the more widespread rain will be behind us, especially as we hit Connecticut and Massachusetts, the chance for a spit of rain can’t be ruled out.