Whew! The trip is FINALLY underway. We took off this morning on what will eventually be a 27-day road trip across the good ol' US of A. After a nice goodbye breakfast courtesy of Adam's mom, we set off from Lilburn about 9 am this morning. A couple quick errand stops and we were gone.
One decision we made for this road trip was to try to go without a GPS. Maps-only. Old school. All seemed well until we got lost just outside Birmingham. Apparently in Alabama you can just start highways in the middle of nowhere, without connecting them to any major interstates. Oh ya, and don't provide any signs as to how to get to it. Go figure. An hour and a half and a lot of frustration later, we were back on track.
The only other hiccup we had was the Jimmy (our car) smoking a little as we went up hills. Oh crap. We stopped at a gas station and realized it was running low on anti-freeze. We topped her off and that seems to have fixed the problem. We'll keep our fingers crossed on this one.
The rest of the trip went pretty well. We got a book on tape from Cracker Barrel. They have a great program for anyone doing a road trip of their own - only like $3.50 per week and you can return to any Cracker Barrel. We had a good Memphis barbeque dinner at Neely's - Steph had seen it on the Food Network on "Down Home with the Neely's." Also I believe her "Aunt" Paula Deen had recommended them in the past.
We eventually arrived at our hotel in Conway, Arkansas about 9pm local time. It's been all in all a good day. We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow as we drive thru Oklahoma and deep into the Sunflower state (dont look it up, its Kansas).
