Heading Somewhere In Ohio

 It's 6:40, soon to be 7:40 when we head north into Ohio. We are staying at a Hampton Inn in Goodlettsville, TN, about 20 miles north of Nashville. We have another five of six hour drive today, then hope the weather and roads are decent enough to head to the lake on Wednesday

We left Little Rock around 9 00, in no hurry to get on the road. The ride was nondescript. It was mostly vast fields that seemed to stretch forever, flat as a pan, with occasional farm houses, towns, and, at times, trees still covered with leaves of changing colors. We had two stops again, once for breakfast at Mc Donalds and a few hours later for lunch and gas. Traffic was heavy, lots of trucks but we were able to stay around 70mph most of the way until we arrived in Nashville and then things slowed down for the next half hour as we made our way around it and headed north on 65 to Goodlettsville. 

We arrived at the Hampton at 3:30, a six-hour drive as we expected. It felt delicious to sink into a bed after the drive and enjoy some TV, book, nap or shower. We are used to driving eight or nine hours in the past but now, six seems just about right. We were lucky with our dinner choices because a highly recommended restaurant, Long Hollow Pizza And Pub was a short walk away. We walked over in light snow at 6:00 and found a seat at the bar in front of a galley of TVs, ten total. We ordered beers for me, a micro beer called Pub Cerveza, from Nashville, and Evie had wine. We ordered our usual, pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni, an 18inch pizza special on Tuesdays, five bucks off, a deal. 

Yum

We watched the Browns game along with a couple of Denver Bronco fans, then walked home in the light snow. We were both tired so we watched only the first half of the game before turning off the lights and reading some before sleep. 

A Great Bar