Kentucky

 Mini road trip! I love 'em.

This one included myself, my two daughters and my mother, so of course it was extra fun. In spurts, anyhow, between longish periods of sleepyness and near-boredom.

It was a quickie, just a down-one-day, back-the-next trip to move D#1 from her summer (work) dorm to her Senior Year Dorm! As an RA, she was moving in early, heading out to RA camp, and coming back to ready her hall for her girls. As her grandfather might have said, my mom and I were busting our buttons a bit about her senior year, the fact of it and the way she's doing it. I am in awe of her.

The first day included 9 hours on the road south through Indiana, western Kentucky and Tennessee, mostly looking like this but beginning to roll at about the time we hit our favorite town names: Flippin Akersville and Eighty Eight, Kentucky. Way! Well, mostly. It turns out that Flippin and Akersville are two towns near each other. But Eighty Eight? :)

Ryan Adams, Sandra McCracken, Diddy, Nancy Griffith and Fun., among others, kept us going.

Our 20 hours in Tennessee included a dinner out, West Wing in, and a breakfast almond croissant (bakery in top photo) that was even more satisfying than our Strasbourg Patrick's croissants. We also pushed luggage carts around campus for an hour or two and delivered all the boxes to the new room, with a little help from man muscles. All in all, a happy trip!

The way home was hillier and drenched, as we dove through downpours, thunder and lightning in eastern Kentucky. We explored a short-cut, which was a success, and made it home also in about 9 hours.