Briefly Hangin In Elizabethtown, Kentucky (525 miles)

On The Road With Evie

Siblings And Partners In Crime in Ft. Lauderdale

I am starting this late, 8:00.  drinking a cup of coffee with Evie in our Hampton Inn. We have another eight hours today, to Little Rock and then, on Sunday, we finally get to Dallas and Beth's family. Yippee.

Because we have decided to be sensible and turn our trip into two overnight stops, we were in no hurry to leave the lake.  We were up early, however, so we were on the road by 8:00, having checked off all the boxes before we left.  Did we bring our chargers, our glasses, our devices? Did we turn off the hot water, lock both doors, turn down the thermostats.  All that kind of stuff. 

Spring Green from Car Window

Overall, we had an easy drive, mostly cloudy through Ohio and one-stop in Mansfield for what we hoped was breakfast and Mickey D's but they stopped serving breakfast, so at 10:45, we were having chicken sandwiches, fries, and cokes for breakfast.  Our one snafu was on entering Cincinnati.  The bridge across the Ohio River via RT 71 was being worked on so we took a maze-like drive, following Waze to get across the bridge and back on #71.  I swear we went across the river, then turned around and came back to the Ohio side, too many back streets until eventually cross the river again to Coventry, Kentucky. Thank God for Waze or I still might be driving in circles,

We noticed long lines of backed-up cars on the other side of the bridge in Kentucky, at least ten miles long. It looked to me as if it was deliberate as a couple of trucks had just stopped. We met some pauses for heavy traffic going through Louisville and stopped completely outside when work was being done on the highway.  We had maybe fifteen minutes of stop-and-go driving. We arrived at our Hampton at 4:30, an eight-and-a-half-hour drive as expected. 

My Friendship Bracelet, Made By My Granddaughter Marisa, Broke After Two Years

We checked in and relaxed until 6:00 after scouring the web about places to eat. We ended up walking a hundred yards to Shogun sushi, a chain around here.  It was a busy place but we only waited a few minutes for a table. We are both surprised at how few people wear masks even though they are required, especially in Hampton.  We ordered spring rolls and bang bang shrimp for an appetizer and two sushi rolls and a beer for our main course and left stuffed.  It was an average experience, not the best but not awful.  We were back in our room by 8:00 and watched an old movie called Primal Fear. It's really a fine film and Edward Norton is amazing as the accused butcher boy.  The ending is perfect.

Scenic View From Our Hampton Inn