Category: Tennessee
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Rocky Top to the Queen City
Woke up to a quarter-full lot of Sunday worshippers at the Worship Center on the hill. Hit the road immediately, with the intent of cruising a few exits north and getting a cup of coffee. Played one-more-exit roulette until hitting a wall of stopped traffic on a two-lane stretch of I-75 outside Jellico. Finished the…
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Wenched out and back on the road
Quick dispensation with the prostration that every blog owner must inevitably perform: errr uhhh sorry I haven’t updated in a while guys. I meant to write/post more while I was traveling in Asia, then I didn’t. Then I felt bad about not writing more, so I stopped logging into this site. Then five months passed.…
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Day Eleven (The Final Day)
Last night’s hunch was correct — I had a great night’s sleep outside of the Love’s. Slept so good I missed McDonald’s breakfast. Open my front door a little before 11:00, step out into my yard, and bop on over 30 feet for my first coffee of the day. The goal is home by sundown. Nothing…
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Day Ten
Woke up comfortably at Cleave and Stefanie’s in the late morning, and the three of us piled in the Prius for breakfast at their favorite spot down the road. It was the first time I’d been in a normal-sized vehicle in over a week and boy did it feel different. Had an enormously restorative breakfast…
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Day Nine
A sluggish and unremarkable stretch from the Lazy Days Campground on to Nashville. A day of driving where the mile markers seemed to be gaslighting me into thinking that my destination was always going to be hours away, no matter how far I drove. Lost some daylight when I had to stop for a nap…
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