Just About Home

And speaking of warmth, we're getting it on the way back home, both yesterday and today. Still wearing my beach shorts and polo shirt and intend to wear them all the way back home. Who'd have figured it would be in the 60s today in Spring Grove, Illinois? February 10th, and 60 degrees. However, that lately has come to mean, WATCH OUT for some particularly nasty weather.

Yesterday, drove from Panama City Beach via Florida Hwy 79, which turned into Alabama Hwy 167 to US-231 in Troy to Montgomery, where we picked up I-65 to Nashville. Again, enjoyed the big Confederate flag between Birmingham and Montgomery, compliments of the Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, then there was that huge rocket at the Alabama Welcome Center. Definitely two landmarks.

Gas was about 10-15 cents more expensive in Florida than Alabama. The most expensive gas I bought on the trip was $1.98 in Florida by I-10.


TENNESSEE TO INDIANA

Took I-24 west from Nashville to Penneyville Parkway (US-41) and future I-69 Corridor. Amazing road, in that it was a tollway constructed with the promise that when it was paid for, it would become free, AND IT ACTUALLY DID!!!! Hear that Illinois??

Went to Newburgh, Indiana, and played NTN at three places: State Street, Boston's, and Archie and Clyde's Roca Bar. That brought us to a total of 16 new sites visited for the trip. It could have been more, but we stayed longer in Panama City Beach.

Got a room at the Evansville, Indiana, Super 8 and actually have decent wireless reception, about the only shortcoming of the Driftwood Lodge in Panama City Beach, where we stayed from January 31st to yesterday.

Love the Road, But Good to get Home. --RoadDog