The run down on Thursday was just about the fastest I have made to date. It took only eight hours to get down to Spring Hill with only a little slow down south of Nashville on I-65. Going through the construction in Dayton I passed I don't know how many people that don't know the trick to get through there quickly. The trick is to stay in the right lane to get passed the traffic merging into the center lane. Then when in the construction zone a third lane is added on the right. That is when you move over to that lane, because everyone else is staying in that center lane.
The picture is from the dock that I end up at every time I come down to GM. You can see how we have to drop the trailer, chock both wheels, and put a jack stand under the nose to be unloaded. The funny part is that the jack stand instructions include one that states, remove before hooking back up.
Heading back north I started hearing about backed up traffic due to night time construction. So I got to see the countryside again as several trucks jumped off to take US-31W North. A lot of the road, we used all of it, it just wasn't wide enough to drive in the lane we were supposed to. We passed something I thought I would never see in person, a Sleep in a Wigwam motel, I have seen them mentioned on the Travel Channel. Taking this detour we passed the worst back-up and then jumped back on just before the next bit, which was fortunately moving fairly quickly.
This morning's breakfast was interesting. On a whim I decided to sit in the drivers area at the Petro, mistake. almost immediately after spreading out my laptop, etc, a driver starts getting loud complaining about the air being on making his food cold, then went into a half hour rant about the non-smoking law here. I have a feeling he is one of those that bitch on the CB just to hear his voice. Of course his bitching got him a free meal, but was still funny afterward.
Time to get moving, more later.
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