Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving Post (part 1)

Here's the 1st day's worth of the trip log. We got a small notebook & kept detailed notes of the drive. Enjoy!
6:45 - Leaving Boggs ($3.29 per gallon)*
7:30 - Crossing the Ohio state line
8:40 - McDonalds drive through for breakfast. Sara's eggs were nasty & they screwed up Solstice's coffee.**
10:15 - McDonalds bathroom break*
11:00 - Kentucky state line
11:20 - Franklin, KY water tower: "Franklin Y'all"
12:00 - Lexington, KY Marathon station. 327 miles, $3.25 per gallon*** Sara Takes over driving***
12:30 - crossed the Kentucky River
12:38 - First sighting of a tree that still had leaves on it
12:45 - Mullet confusion
1:35 - looking for a death-defying tunnel. Found the Col. Sander's Cafe & Museum. It has a certain je ne sais quoi
1:55 - Back on I75 via US 25 W
2:15 - got water @ a Shell station on US 25 W
2:29 - Tennessee state line
3:00 - Museum of Appalachia (w/ continuous complaints from Solstice)#
4:00 - Back on I75
4:15 - Constructed chronological list of CDs to which we'd been listening
4:20 - Traffic jam in Knoxville
4:30 - Started eating a block of cheese sans crackers
4:40 - Saw our 1st Georgia licence plate
4:43 - Put away the cheese in order to construct a list of the licence plates we'd seen
5:21 - Traffic jam over
5:29 - Tennessee River in the sunset... beautiful
5:57 - Gas & Dinner @ a BP Station. 20 bucks in the tank. 559.9 miles; $3.19 per gallon. Andre takes over driving again. {{Sara's notes start here}} ("Dinner" seems questionable - "Junk food" is more specific)
6:34 - Chattanooga (w/ scenic overlook we suspect it actually looks nicer after dark w/ the lights of the city & w/o the industrial crap##)
6:46 - Georgia state line
7:27 - Decided against stopping @ Popcorn Haven^
7:33 - Saw sign for peach pie & composed a tongue twister^^
7:45 - Stop @ BP station. Failed experiment w/ a "Dickie's Pecan Roll" (claims of divinity were decidedly exaggerated)
8:25 - Atlanta
9:09 - City of Covington!
9:10 - Discovered Mater juice box under the seat while looking for the pen
9:21 - The Arrival!


* Forgot to get ice
** Conversation @ McDonalds:
Me: "These eggs are undercooked & nasty."
Cashier: "OK. Well remake them & make sure they are well done."
Me: "Just done would be fine. You don't need to go from 1 extreem to another."
*** got ice (& a pen)
# W/ lots of peacocks & chickens
## We apologize for the vulgar language here.
^ 2 nays w/ 1 abstaining
^^ Impecably prepared peaches placed precisely in a perfect peach pie

1 comment:

kelly said...

maybe the cashier was saying they were going to ensure your eggs were done well... // ever think of that? haha