Big travel day

Andy and the kids got an early start driving yesterday. When I looked at my iPad at 5:50 a.m. I already had a message to call him when I got up. They started out going south on I-57. At 10 a.m. Andy said they were in Paducah, Ky. L sent this "Welcome to Tennessee" sign picture at about 11:30 a.m.

They passed through Nashville at 12:15 p.m.

They stopped for lunch in Smyrna, Tenn., and apparently got coffee in Murfeesboro, Tenn., around 1:30 p.m. It's nice I can track L's car on the Buick app. She and T were taking turns driving since Andy is towing his car.

From I-57 they went on I-24. Got some rain near Perlham, Tenn. Then they were taking I-75 toward Atlanta, stopping near there for the night. Andy left for his work/golf trip last Saturday morning (after donuts), came home Wednesday in a bad mood, then left for Champaign with the truck Thursday. He said he was tired. I'm sure he was. The hotel in Marietta where they had reservations for the night was apparently so disgusting they left and went to find another. Second hotel is in Forsyth, Ga., quite a ways south of Atlanta. They'll have a shorter than expected drive tody so hopefully they'll sleep in a bit today.

L's summary of the first hotel --the original hotel was absolutely disgusting. the lobby was full of homeless crackheads who idk if they were staying there. the elevator was loud and a nightmare. the room itself had a HOLE in a CONCRETE wall which has to be a structural issue, and none of the outlets and light switches had covers so electrical wires were just out. the bathroom door was in pieces and they left us one single half roll of toilet paper and a single towel. then we realized the entire right side of the room was flooded from the rain!! houdini and vader went under the bed and then i loved the bed and found trash, some random green wax cube, plastic bags and burnt plastic spoons. oh and F-ING MAGGOTS. i immediately picked the cats up and told dad I was not staying in that room and we left, and some random lady saw tyler carrying houdini and reached out to grab him saying “pretty kitty”