MYRTLE BEACH OR BUST!!!!

We head for Myrtle Beach at last!!!  What a beautiful day for traveling!!!!  Started out a little cool but was in the 60's by the end of the day!!!    It was windy but the sun was shining through the clouds .. a beautiful beautiful day!!!   We could not have squeezed much more into that car ... LOL!!!

Ken's  goal was to hit the road by 7:00 .. we missed it by 1 minute ... LOL!!!   Takeoff at 7:01 am .. there's a quarter sized splat of bird poop on MY side of the front window and a Jimmy Buffet CD playing through the radio .. Oh Boy!!!!

Leaving  Festus behind ... it wasn't easy but I managed to miss the bird poop ..

 8:11 am .. First stop .. Breakfast at Mc Donalds in Cape Girardeau ..my favorite McDonalds's sandwich .. Sausage and Egg McMuffin and Coffee!!! 

9:39 am 

Crossing into Kentucky .. 

Whoops .. there's that bird poop ... LOL!!

 Welcome Center in Paducah ... 10:26 am ..

How about a selfie????? 

  
 12:00 .. Stopped at a gas station in Grover, KY to fill up ... $1.99 a gallon .. Woooo Hooooo!!!  We had been seeing signs of $2.29 ... $2.49 ... Kenny was HAPPY!!!  He even cleaned the bird poop off the front window ... and Liz was HAPPY too!!! 

 

2:02 pm .. Welcome Center in Tennessee ... we sat in the sun at a picnic table here and had enjoyed a picnic lunch before traveling on!!!  

Finally starting to see something worth taking  pictures of ... LOL!!!   

 Somewhere along here there was a sign that we were now in the Eastern time zone .. this was at 3:16 our time .. so time took a big jump to 4:16!!!! 

AH .. finally got a decent picture of the mountains ahead!!!

The Smoky Mountains!!! 

We  had planned to spend the night in Knoxville but we arrived there around 3:30 and felt that was too early to get off the road.  We had picked up a hotel discount booklet at the welcome Center and saw that the Quality Inn in Newport, TN was close to a Cracker Barrel and a Wal Mart and decided that would be  our destination for a night's rest!!!   We arrived at the hotel about 6:00 .. and headed for Cracker Barrel AND Wal Mart shortly after we got settled in!!!  

The Clabber Girl sign I have hanging on my kitchen wall was given to me my son Billy and it is one of my "treasures" .. Ken and I always look for the Clabber Girl sign when we got into a Cracker Barrel .. so far in all our travels we have only come across 2 of them that did NOT have a Clabber Girl sign!!!!   

There was not a lot of excitement in this day or a lot of beauty to see and capture with my camera but it was a GREAT day anyway .. and we are now just a night's sleep and a few hours of driving away from our destination .. and who knows ..maybe we'll see something exciting tomorrow .. you never know .. LOL!!!  

Milage on the car when we started out this morning was 23,530 .. milage at the end of our day .. 24,065.   Kenny drove 535 miles today!!!  Thank You Lord for the beautiful day and for giving us safe travels!!!