Day 2

Starting mileage 9433

Our route will take us through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and into Georgia.


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Along the way we stopped in Corbin KY, home of the Sanders Cafe the home of Kentucky Fried Chicken.  We were before they opened, but an employee was in the parking lot cleaning up.  We showed him the car and he opened up early to let us look around.

Tennessee had sufficient room to pull off on the shoulder for a photo.  I'm sure Kentucky won't be the only state where we'll have problems.

Everywhere we go the car gathers crowds, sometime it's unwanted attention.  These guys just wanted to get a look at the car.

We passed into North Carolina on route 129, also known as the "Tail of the Dragon".  It's claimed to have 318 turns in 11 miles through the mountains.  It was quite crowded with many motorcycles and a Mazda rally.  I preferred route 60 through West Virginia, or many of the other mountain roads in the area.

South Carolina wasn't too far away, where we stopped at the Beacon Drive-in, another Diners Drive-ins and Dives location.  I've noticed that many of these places seem to be known more for the quantity of food.  What I saw most folks ordering was a heaping plate of fries and onion rings covering a chili burger.  Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the Beacon.

Next stop was Georgia where we encountered another sign on a bridge with no real place to pull over to get a picture.  We did get one while we drove past.

We seems to be having difficulty finding hotel rooms, there was a baseball tournament in Lexington, KY and there is a Jehovah's Witness gathering where we stopped in Lawrenceville, GA.  Hopefully we'll have more luck later on.

Day 1

I had picked up some new soft sided bags for the trip, hoping they would be easier to pack.  We packed light with just a weeks worth of clothing (mostly tee shirts shorts).   I hadn't tried packing everything before the morning we were intended to leave, but everything did fit with a little spare room.

The route for today takes us from Virginia through West Virginia and into Kentucky.


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Starting mileage 8839,  about 12000 miles to go.

The first three days are a little heaver driving days so I wanted to get an early start, and we were able to get out just a little later than anticipated. 

We will be stopping at a variety of different locations along the way, our first stop is at Foamhenge outside of Natural Bridge Virginia.  This is suppose to be a full size replica of Stonehenge in England only constructed out of 400lb foam blocks.  It looks like it's seen better days, but is weathering the elements and tourists well given it's made of foam.

We started in Virginia, I'm not sure whether we should count it now or when we return.  I'm going to count West Virginia as our first state.  They had a nice big sign with a wide pull off for photo ops.

Since we are on a road trip, we'll be having road food.  The first stop is HillBilly Hotdogs in West Virginia.  This recommendation is from Diners Drive-ins and Dives.  The hotdogs were good, and you could get them with pretty much everything.

On to Kentucky.  Unfortunately our plan for getting a picture of the car with each state welcome sign didn't last too long.  There was construction that narrowed the bridge to a single lane so it wasn't possible to stop.  We did however take a picture as we passed.