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Making our Way

It was nice to receive this little note from our granddaughter before we left.

Very cool, eh?  GG stands for Grandpa and Gma.

Anyway, we’re making our way southwest — mostly south.  We are crossing the Ohio River here, and into Kentucky.


Who knew Lincoln was born in Kentucky?

We spent the night in Louisville.  This was in our breakfast room the next morning.  The pronunciation that bugs me the most is “Luhvul”.  It sounds like they have a mouthful of ping pong balls when they’re saying it.  However, I expect King Louis would be even less impressed.



So we left Louisville yesterday morning, and we’re driving along and this empty transport passes us.  He’s carrying a little truck on the flatbed.  Rather cute.



About an hour or so north of Nashville, but still in Kentucky, we cross into the central time zone.


Hmmm - didn’t know McDonald’s had a winery!?!?  How about that.


Then we were in Tennessee!


Gerard teases me about this sweets brand whenever he sees it.  Well, didn’t we pull in right beside a truck at a rest stop.  Had to take a picture.


My favourite building which I call the “Batman Building” in Nashville.  We’re crossing the Cumberland River here.

Now we’re in Bama!


We stopped at the Welcome Center (sp?) which is near Huntsville.  The inventor of the Saturn rocket was from here and they have a museum to the rocket, which we visited in Huntsville 3-4 years ago.  Quite interesting.



So we stayed in Tuscaloosa (home of the Crimson Tide — Alabama State University) and will be heading on down to Nawlins today.

I’m using a new Blogger app instead of the online version of Blogger.  We’ll see how this works.

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  1. David KraemerJanuary 25, 2018 at 8:27 AM

    The Adventures of Little Debbie continue...
    Any geocaching highlights to speak of yet?

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