An Experiment in Scotch

Roads: I-20 to US-80 to US-69 to State High­way 78 Miles: 367 Time: 6 hours Well it’s over. I’m still pro­cess­ing the trip in many ways. First off, let’s talk some totals. I was gone from the house for 14 days, the longest vaca­tion I’ve ever been on, at least since join­ing the true work­ing …

Roads: I-10 to I-110 to US-98 to US-49 to I-20 Miles: 338 Time: 6 hours Today started early again at 5. I’ve been going to bed by 9 pretty reg­u­larly with lit­tle to do at night and thus, 5 AM becomes a nat­ural wak­ing time. With the stress from the car issues yes­ter­day along with …

Roads: US-17/I-95/US-1/I-10 Miles: 634 Time: 12 hours Wednes­day was a rest day in Charleston. While I had a list on my itin­er­ary of things I wanted to see and do in Charleston, I appar­ently for­got to look at it com­pletely and instead did other things. The first was go for a run at 7:30 in …

Roads: I-95 to I-26 Miles: 227 Time: 4 hours I started out this morn­ing with a trip to the Air­borne and Spe­cial Forces Museum in Fayet­teville. My cousin’s hus­band has been in Air­borne for the past year or so and he gave me an inside look into what it’s like to jump out of air­planes for …

Roads: I-95 Miles: 324 Time: 5 hours It never ceases to amaze me how much bet­ter the sec­ond day after an indis­crim­i­nate night on the town actu­ally feels. I still wasn’t 100 per­cent but I also wasn’t con­tem­plat­ing jump­ing into the Potomac with a 55 gal­lon drum of con­crete tied to my leg. On top of …

Roads: US 250 to VA-22 to US-15 to VA-20/Constitution High­way to VA-3 to I-95 Miles: 130 Time: 3.5 hours The morn­ing of day 6 was spent at Mon­ti­cello, the home of Thomas Jef­fer­son in Char­lottesville, VA. It wasn’t on the orig­i­nal itin­er­ary but came highly rec­om­mended. I“m glad I went as it is a fas­ci­nat­ing …

Roads: US-19 North to I-26/US-23 N to I-81 N to I-64 E to US-29 North Miles: 362 Time: 5.5 hours The morn­ing was cold and clear after the front moved through dur­ing the night. The car doors were par­tially frozen shut, noth­ing that a lit­tle force couldn’t fix but still well below freez­ing. I had stayed …

Roads: I-40 Miles: 150 Time: 3 hours Today the front def­i­nitely caught up with me, phys­i­cally and men­tally. The tem­per­a­ture dropped sig­nif­i­cantly and the wind switched out of the north. When I left Knoxville it was rain­ing and it didn’t stop until about 7 PM. The drive through the Smok­ies was prob­a­bly very pretty but most …

The front I out­ran on Sun­day in Louisiana finally caught up to me in Knoxville and the weather turned rainy. Thank­fully, it hadn’t got­ten cold yet so walk­ing around wasn’t bad but all out­door activ­i­ties had to get shelved which is too bad since Knoxville is largely an out­door kind of place. The first stop …

Roads: Inter­state 59 N — Inter­state 75 N Miles: 265 Time: 4 hours We’re elim­i­nat­ing the “Stayed” por­tion of our sum­mary because frankly, this place isn’t worth men­tion­ing. I started the day at the Birm­ing­ham Botan­i­cal Gar­dens. It’s a neat lit­tle botan­i­cal gar­dens, walk­a­ble in about 2 hours dur­ing the win­ter when there isn’t much to …