| May. 9th, 2008 @ 04:34 pm Greetings from Nashville |
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It would have been so nice to get on the road around 3pm, so we could have avoided most of the rush hour traffic. Unfortunately, we got started around 4:30. Need I say more?
Not much to say about the first part of the trip. Between two appearances at the Fishers Ren Faire, one at the Bloomington Ren Faire, and a visit last fall to the Ohio Ren Faire, we've driven that section of I-65 a lot over the last three years.
Mary Lou enjoys eating at Chick-Fil-A (as do I), and there are a couple on the route, but we usually could not stop on our way home since they are closed on Sundays. Unfortunately, with traveling into the Eastern Time Zone, we would arrive after they closed. So we stopped at an IHoP, and when we walked in, I would have sworn I was dreaming. In one corner was a party of a dozen clowns - make-up, costume, and all - and the booth next to us had a young couple who spent the whole time talking about Dungeons & Dragons.
Good food, though.
Friday morning we drove out of Indiana and into Kentucky. Lexington is a beautiful city, and the last time we visited we found an amazing Irish pub/restaurant, with an authentic Irish menu. Unfortunately, we were passing through too early to stop. However, we did go downtown so Mary Lou could pick up a pin from the Hard Rock Cafe.
Kentucky is beautiful, even on the Interstate, but it was overcast with a low cloud cover, so many of the hills were covered in mist. Fortunately, the weather lifted as the day progressed. (BTW, we got our Chick-Fil-A in Bowling Green.)
Have I mentioned lately that I love new technology. Okay, maybe it's just new to me. But after giving one to many wrong directions in our travels (she drives, I read the map/navigate), I got Mary Lou a GPS navigator for Christmas. There are some limitations to it I don't like (I can't zoom out and scroll like on MapQuest), but the directions are reliable, and it offers a lot of perks. You can look for a category (restaurant, gas station) or a specific business (Chick-Fil-A, Murphy USA), and you can look for it either in the area or on your route. Plus, if you want go to someplace off the route, and the unit will get you to your detour and then back on your route. It actually helped us find the motel we are staying at tonight. If you don't have internet access in your car, this is the next best thing.
We got in to the motel around 4pm, and decided to make an early evening of it. Tomorrow is the Ren faire, and when we leave there, we will drive the last three hours to Gatlinburg. Probably won't see much scenery on the way, but we should have quite the view when we get up in the morning.
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