Day 3 Finished

Start Miles: 5202

End Miles: 6173

Total Miles: 971

We left at 6 am, bright and early. We had a grumpy, non morning dog, with whom did not want to listen all morning. We didn't have breakfast until noon, and had a rough morning. After all of the run around with going from Nashville to Louisville then back to Champaign, IL, we didn't do too bad with time. We got to Menomonie, WI the home of Ms. Robin Miller and Shane Miller at 9 pm with a couple quick pit stops.

We've been really lucky on our trip so far, but when we reached the WI border, it was nothing but highway patrolmen. Really? Are we in Super Troopers? They were frequent and abundant, but they didn't stop us from making amazing time!

The best of all was an amazing big sky sunset late. Don't mind the dirty bug infested window.

Day 3

Start Miles: 5202

Lesson learned. Eat breakfast first and don't jump right on the road.

Three hours, too many miles, and a tank of gas later, we've gone way out of our way. Don't try to alter something that isn't broken. We tried to alter course but ended up on a course for disaster, and in the thickest fog I've seen in a long time.

On the upside Louisville is a cool looking city with all of the bridges and brick buildings - that we see from I65.

Day 2

Start Miles: 4702
End Miles: 5194
Total Miles: 492

Made it to Nashville at 5:30pm last night. Tennessee is quite the pretty state, but it's definitely a rainy one. After the flooding not long ago and with all of the rain, Nashville looks like a wet dog - at least a pretty one.

Since we didn't get much sleep the night before, we decided to take it easy last night a just do a drive through the city and go out to dinner. If you are ever indicisive about what you feel like eating - always go Irish. There was an Irish bar and restaurant a block from our hotel on division street. We stuffed ourselves and food comaed right to sleep. It was wonderful.

Day 1

Start Mies: 4277

End Miles: 4702

Total miles: 423.4

We decided to leave Thursday night, 8:30 to be exact, to get ahead of things. Pretty uneventful even besides the millions of deer standing beside the road, and a grumpy, spoiled, and confused dog being a brat.

We got into Valdosta, GA at 3:30 this morning completely bushed and rested our heads at a Quality Inn for the night.

It's now a little before 9 and we're on the road again headed to Nashville. Anyone drive on 75N in southern Georgia and notice the abundance of billboards?

My favorite billboard so far: "Strippers - need we say more?". Yeah strippers now work truck stops.

Just a test

This is just a test from my iPhone to make sure this app works nicely or we can work out any bugs!

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Revision to this post using Bloggers website to post a picture of "The Beast", the machine, the vehicle that's going to be our savior the next couple of weeks. The Jeep. Photo taken in front of our building.