Buy a cheap rain suit. I got a camping type one for my very first trip down there and I used it on every trip I took down there. I even rolled it up enough to fit under the seat in VFR.
On my last trip down there we got caught in a torrential downpour all the way across the Cherehola which sucked real bad but we threw our stuff on the cabin heaters and were good to go the next day.
I've always wanted to take the one route Pauly likes through SEO, WV, etc that he breaks in to two days. Always looked and sounded like a ton of fun but due to timing I could never get the time off work and trailered instead