Once More To The Lake

With Our Son, Tom

We decided that whenever we woke, whether 5:00 or 8:00 we would be off to the lake. So it's 6:45 at the moment and I am having breakfast compliments of the Hampton Inn and finishing the blog. To my surprise, the breakfast room was packed, with guys here for a conference of some kind. We should be off by 7:30 at the latest and get back to the lake and snow by mid-afternoon.  

5:44

Monday was a typical day-long drive, with not much to see or do other than keep your eyes on the road and keep driving. We were up early at Tom and Mary's, at 5:30, had our coffee, finished packing the car and we were on our way to Indiana by 6:30. We have left this early numerous times and always look forward to the rising sun when we hit Interstate 70, heading east.  At times it's blinding but yesterday there were some clouds so I didn't need my shades.  

7:15

We were lucky with our drive, no accidents, few traffic jams, and a decent day, mostly overcast but no rain or snow.  We had a couple of stops because we decided to trade off every two-plus hours so we hit Mc Donalds, both for breakfast and lunch because it's usually quick. We made better time than we thought so Evie called Hampton Inns and canceled our one reservation and made another farther along on our drive, to Richmond, IN, making today's drive an hour shorter.

We pulled into our Hampton Inn at 4:15 (3:15 Central Time), an eight-hour and forty-five-minute drive.  We collapsed in our room for a couple of hours until we decided to have dinner.  Fortunately, a restaurant called Wings And Rings was next door so we walked over even though there were few cars in the parking lot,  I guess the place was busy earlier but when we got there, we were the only people in the bar. We ordered onion rings for an appetizer to go with our beers and wings and a salad for a main course,  Everything was good though not the healthiest of the choices except for the salad, We did not stay long although a few couples started arrived as we were leaving.  

We walked back to our Inn, watched some Jeopardy and football but ended up going to be earlier than ever, tired from our drive and our trip.