Our trip to Memphis for the Folk Alliance was freaking awesome, but here, recorded for future reference, are our boring, blow by blow road notes. Stop now. Do not pass go, do not collect $200 dollars. Don't say I didn't warn you. Mostly this is where I can put all of those notes I jot all along the way when I'm on a road trip, the ones I think I'll refer back to when I make the trip again and invariable forget where I put, or even that I made them at all. So consider this my new leaf.
Road Notes
Leave Mount Dora, Florida - Monday 2/19 a 7:45 p.m. - We decided to hit the road at night just to get some miles under our belts. We hit the Georgia State line at 11:00 p.m./178 miles later. Drove on until 1 a.m./337 total miles and stopped at the Holiday Inn in Macon, GA off of exit 3 on I-475. This was the same Holiday Inn we stayed at when Kristine and I caravaned together for our Helen, GA/Unicoi State Park trip we do every October. Price was good ($65.00 per night) and rooms are recently updated and nice. Only down side is we had to eat in the actual restaurant, a bit of a time waster, instead of those grand complimentary-hit-the-road-running type breakfasts. We noticed a Holiday Inn Express a bit further up the road, back on I-85, at exit 186...no restaurant and has that continental breakfast.
Tuesday 2/20 - 7:10 a.m. - fill up the tank and hit the road. We decided to take I-85W/285N south of Atlanta to I-20. Atlanta is a bit of a worry just because the traffic can be a bit of a jam up, but we were also warned that the bypasses can take longer if the traffic straight is moving well. Anyway, this way worked really well.
We hit Alabama 139 miles from Macon at 9:50 am EST, and the time automatically changed to 8:50 CST . Ok, am I the only one that thinks that's awesome?! I don't think so....
12 p.m. - got gas in Jasper and decided to take the "Scenic Natural Bridge" way and not I-78w get there in a hurry way.
12:45 - stopped into the Natural Bridge which is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. We hiked for a bit, saw Indian Face Rock and the Natural Bridge which was really nice. There were dried hydrangeas still on their bushes, and water pools from slow dripping water, mini falls, and a creek, and lots of cool erosion in the rock due to the water.
By 1:15 we're on the road again. I was really glad we took this way and that we stopped. Usually when we travel it's a point A to point B sort of fashion, so this was nice.
2p.m. we crossed over into Mississippi - we were about 662 miles from home
4:05 we cross over into Tennessee - about 785 miles.
Arrive in Memphis at the Downtown Marriott Hotel- whoohoo!
+++++Side trip to Nashville, TN to see Rob and Brenda Wilkins+++++
Rob's one of those dear old friends that you don't have to see for, say, oh about 20 years, but when you do, it's like you just have never been apart and it's easy to pick right up where you left off....yep, one of those. Aren't I lucky? Here sure can show a gal a good time and his wife's a sweety. And....they live in NASHVILLE! I left at 11:30 on Thursday and got there by 3pm. When you're that far from home, 3.5 hours seems like nothing. I left about 4:30 Friday afternoon. A quick trip, boo. but great. Thanks Guys!!
Road trip home
It was sad and we didn't want to leave, it's true. We had a good time.
Sunday - We left Corky's BBQ (last time for BBQ in TN, and I had to have the banana pudding) at 6:35 CST and arrived at the Best Western in Leeds Alabama at 10:45 p.m. It was a new hotel and we paid $72.00 per night. Let's just say it wasn't the Marriott and it was OK. It was in Leeds, AL need I say more? I thought not. We stopped here because it was feeling late and we were tired and sometimes when you are driving you pass what seems like a nothing town, thinking a better town was down the road and you end up driving for a l o n g time looking for something even remotely as good as that nothing town you passed. So we stopped.
Monday morning - left Leeds AL at 8:20 a.m. cst and stopped at Starbucks in Aniston exit 185 (20E). We noticed a lot of hotels, and well, yeah, that Starbucks so maybe next time we drive just a bit longer and we'll be there. note to self.
Entered Georgie at 9:40 cst and the time changed to EST about 5 miles into Georgia.
Arrived at TRADER JOE's in Sandy Springs at 11:48
Left Trader Joe's at 12:45 and drove to IKEA about 20 minutes away.
Left IKEA at 2;50 to GO HOME!
Arrived home at 9:50 p.m. YEAH!
Ok, so dead boring road notes done....It's been so long since this trip happened and I had every intention of making notes about all of the stuff we did, etc. and then all sorts of life happened and kept happening and did what it always does, and everything gets put on the back burner and then here I am and it's one day short of May and I'm just now updating this blog for a trip in February. How does that happen, how?
Maybe I'll go in, make a new post and add a few trip highlights and change the date and time of entry and you'll never know what I did. maybe. That would be the best case scenario, actually.
Road Notes
Leave Mount Dora, Florida - Monday 2/19 a 7:45 p.m. - We decided to hit the road at night just to get some miles under our belts. We hit the Georgia State line at 11:00 p.m./178 miles later. Drove on until 1 a.m./337 total miles and stopped at the Holiday Inn in Macon, GA off of exit 3 on I-475. This was the same Holiday Inn we stayed at when Kristine and I caravaned together for our Helen, GA/Unicoi State Park trip we do every October. Price was good ($65.00 per night) and rooms are recently updated and nice. Only down side is we had to eat in the actual restaurant, a bit of a time waster, instead of those grand complimentary-hit-the-road-running type breakfasts. We noticed a Holiday Inn Express a bit further up the road, back on I-85, at exit 186...no restaurant and has that continental breakfast.
Tuesday 2/20 - 7:10 a.m. - fill up the tank and hit the road. We decided to take I-85W/285N south of Atlanta to I-20. Atlanta is a bit of a worry just because the traffic can be a bit of a jam up, but we were also warned that the bypasses can take longer if the traffic straight is moving well. Anyway, this way worked really well.
We hit Alabama 139 miles from Macon at 9:50 am EST, and the time automatically changed to 8:50 CST . Ok, am I the only one that thinks that's awesome?! I don't think so....
12 p.m. - got gas in Jasper and decided to take the "Scenic Natural Bridge" way and not I-78w get there in a hurry way.
12:45 - stopped into the Natural Bridge which is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. We hiked for a bit, saw Indian Face Rock and the Natural Bridge which was really nice. There were dried hydrangeas still on their bushes, and water pools from slow dripping water, mini falls, and a creek, and lots of cool erosion in the rock due to the water.
By 1:15 we're on the road again. I was really glad we took this way and that we stopped. Usually when we travel it's a point A to point B sort of fashion, so this was nice.
2p.m. we crossed over into Mississippi - we were about 662 miles from home
4:05 we cross over into Tennessee - about 785 miles.
Arrive in Memphis at the Downtown Marriott Hotel- whoohoo!
+++++Side trip to Nashville, TN to see Rob and Brenda Wilkins+++++
Rob's one of those dear old friends that you don't have to see for, say, oh about 20 years, but when you do, it's like you just have never been apart and it's easy to pick right up where you left off....yep, one of those. Aren't I lucky? Here sure can show a gal a good time and his wife's a sweety. And....they live in NASHVILLE! I left at 11:30 on Thursday and got there by 3pm. When you're that far from home, 3.5 hours seems like nothing. I left about 4:30 Friday afternoon. A quick trip, boo. but great. Thanks Guys!!
Road trip home
It was sad and we didn't want to leave, it's true. We had a good time.
Sunday - We left Corky's BBQ (last time for BBQ in TN, and I had to have the banana pudding) at 6:35 CST and arrived at the Best Western in Leeds Alabama at 10:45 p.m. It was a new hotel and we paid $72.00 per night. Let's just say it wasn't the Marriott and it was OK. It was in Leeds, AL need I say more? I thought not. We stopped here because it was feeling late and we were tired and sometimes when you are driving you pass what seems like a nothing town, thinking a better town was down the road and you end up driving for a l o n g time looking for something even remotely as good as that nothing town you passed. So we stopped.
Monday morning - left Leeds AL at 8:20 a.m. cst and stopped at Starbucks in Aniston exit 185 (20E). We noticed a lot of hotels, and well, yeah, that Starbucks so maybe next time we drive just a bit longer and we'll be there. note to self.
Entered Georgie at 9:40 cst and the time changed to EST about 5 miles into Georgia.
Arrived at TRADER JOE's in Sandy Springs at 11:48
Left Trader Joe's at 12:45 and drove to IKEA about 20 minutes away.
Left IKEA at 2;50 to GO HOME!
Arrived home at 9:50 p.m. YEAH!
Ok, so dead boring road notes done....It's been so long since this trip happened and I had every intention of making notes about all of the stuff we did, etc. and then all sorts of life happened and kept happening and did what it always does, and everything gets put on the back burner and then here I am and it's one day short of May and I'm just now updating this blog for a trip in February. How does that happen, how?
Maybe I'll go in, make a new post and add a few trip highlights and change the date and time of entry and you'll never know what I did. maybe. That would be the best case scenario, actually.
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