As we were pulling out of Effingham Illinois, I noted the name of the street; Avenue of Middle America. True enough but I'm glad I don't have that address to fill out all the time, it would never fit in the space provided.
Not a mile down I-57 we notice this huge cross at the side of the interstate.
Being Sunday morning and all I consider this a church service of sorts, something we have fallen behind with recently.We did a little texting with Hans and Rikki who are in Ohio in route to VA. No Hans we still are not "there yet" !
The drive today was uneventful which is good and long which isn't. We passed close by Kentucky Lake and were tempted to make a side trip but thought better of it. The GPS discouraged us with its continous display of the miles remaining and time to Home. UGH! Some people pick cute names for their GPS units, not us, ours has been named "bitch". She was dead set on getting us to pass through Atlanta, we were dead set against it, we won that one.
We did pass through Nashville around 12:30 which had Kim reminiscing about her college days at Vanderbuilt. We briefly considered a stop for lunch at San Antonio Taco Co. but instead decide to press on. Bitch.
Around 4pm were are rolling through Alabama and thinking about how good that first Hotel beer is going to be, however our cooler is empty so we will need to restock. While gassing up in some crap place in Shelby County Kim is informed that there will be no beer sales on Sunday. This is serious. We had eyeballed a stop in a little town called Dotham AL which supposedly has some redeeming qualities but not the most important one; beer sales on Sunday. We bag that place in spite of a nice choice of newish looking hotels. We decide to press on to FL where we know beer sales are no problem, yeah right. Upon crossing the FL state line the road imediatly becomes a perfect smooth blanket of asphalt complete with the little reflecters marking the lines/lanes.
Here we enter FL following a rain shower and the steam of summer. Ahhhh!
AL roads are better than MI but not by much, the van has a shimmy at highwya speeds which it didnt have yesterday, I suspect a tire issue.
Super 8 Hotels are pet friendly so we decide to stop there just into FL. While trying to check in I am told of a $20 dog surcharge, no beer sales in this county, a dirtyish lobby and darkish parking lot. The hotel proprieter also got under my skin a little so back on the highway we went. I figured we would head for Tallahasee and the home of FL State U. Lots of dabauchery available there, so about 945 pm (losin an hour for the Eastern Time Zone)we are tucked into a LaQuinta in with ALL the necessities covered.
I think we did 800 some miles today and have another 250 or so tomorrow.
3 comments:
no beer on sundays? how barbaric! that's why everyone goes to church...you can get wine there! rock on, skip's is only a few hours away!
Can you believe that!? The ironic thing was bars and restaurants could serve beer but no take out. I don't get that one.
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