Saturday, July 24, 2010

Day 1: Charlottesville to Mt. Juliet, Tenn.

It was a long first day on the road today, doing 535 miles in about 8 hours driving and 50 minutes stopping for lunch and gas.








We are in a brand new Hampton Inn just east of Nashville. Not much to report today, though Will enjoyed getting his photo with the apparent ambassador of Tennessee.








I enjoyed listening to the Cubs on the radio and getting some religion on the road.









Tomorrow it is a smaller drive to get to Grandma's in Hot Springs, but we are going to take a few side trips - to see Nashville's Parthenon (seen in the recent Percy Jackson movie), driving by Graceland in Memphis (Will has made it clear that he does NOT want to tour the house where Elvis was found dead on the toilet!), and down into Mississippi so he can go for the first time ever to Chuck-E-Cheese's. A good mid-trip break, and the place I would really like to see in Memphis, the National Civil Rights Museum, opens too late on Sunday for us to stop there.

1 comment:

  1. So did Will bring Dolly along for the ride? How was Chucke Cheese? We have one up here, right near Aunt Kate's school.

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