day 12 1800 miles and counting

Hola Everybody,
Its Tori. Today we were pretty much on the road. We spent 7 hours on the road, starting at 9:30 am. I fell asleep a couple times but o 'well.  WE are staying at a much better hotel tonight. Its not as scary. Harrison and I went swimming and our hotel neighbors decided to do weird stuff. Like doing the call me thing to me and the rock out thing to Harrison.It was really weird.  We had Chinese food for dinner. Yumm. Anyway I guess we didn't do anything else so ...
Love you all and Wish you all a awesome goodnight.
With lots of love
Tori

Susan:
Waylon and Willie serenading the front seat.  iPad music in the back...educational games and books in the bag...Tower of Bable comes to mind...

We SAW Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri --we DROVE THROUGH Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia.  We will need to return.  We are getting pretty good at the state birds:  The scissortail flycatcher of Oklahoma is my personal favorite.  The state flowers are harder...The highway skirted Memphis and Tupulo (skipped Elvis' birthplace).  The view from I 78 is TREES, lush  a thousand shades  of green.  There was a monstrously large storage area: rail cars, truck containers, things I couldn't identify.  I think that if the computers go down around here there will be a whole lot of identical containers with no place to go.  There was also a saw mill and various clear cut swaths of forest.

Next we had Science Friday on the front... a movie and a nap covered the back.  Thus it is, traveling with "old folks" and pre-teens in the 21st century

We entered Georgia serenaded by Willie Nelson's "Georgia"..it was lost on the kids.

The Driving Diva directed us safely to our Hampton Inn (loving the GPS these days)  and to our dinner destination.  The Happy Budah proved a hit...despite  a plethora of complaints, from "I get sick on Chinese food"...to "I'm not Hungry.  Tom did a good job of ordering for the table and amazingly everyone savored the new flavors.  Didn't leave much  on the table.  Victoria wanted the bill to keep: it was written in Chinese

We are beginning to lose and find, and lose and find things at this point. Earphones at the moment, I'm sure they will show up...again.   No more emptying through the rear hatch, though.

Most of the towns we couldn't see as we passed were Pop. 7,000+ and likely related to the Civil War.  Looking for a Subway in Pell City AL took us entirely through the very sparse town and on to the next highway exit

Sidenote:  This IS a nice place, but when we asked to be moved to a less smoky smelling room (it is a non-smoking venue) they were extra gracious...moved us...and comped the room

Tomorrow, Savannah, staying in the Historic district and taking the Trolly Tour Colleen and I found a few years back.  I have no takers for the Cemetery (spooky) tour.  And I am not so much wanting to go on a Paula Deen tour ( I guess I should learn how to spell her name).  Colleen and i discovered just how much food can be put on a plate when we visited Paulas's BROTHER's place  (Bubba's) on the aforementioned trip ( $2.00 extra ...if you want it GRILLED)

Harrison is taking a pass on writing and Tom is into his book....just made popcorn...kids watching RV (out loud because the earphones...).  !! o'clock and we know where the kids are.