Just a Sunday Afternoon Family Drive!

I don't know about you and your families...but, when I was a child, our family often piled into our car on Sunday afternoons and went on what we called a "Sunday drive." One of the roads that we used to take took us past orange groves...in amongst one of the groves was an orange juice stand...mmmmmmmmm fresh squeezed orange juice on a warm Arizona afternoon. Another took us past fields and fields of flowers being grown for florists.

Today's Sunday afternoon drive wasn't exactly as idyllic as those of years gone by...for one thing, it was much longer than those we went on when I was a child...yet it really was a very pleasant drive (at least, when we weren't entirely surrounded by trucks!). We saw absolutely beautiful scenery...Tennessee is such a beautiful state to live in and today we saw quite a few hundred miles of it...so very green! Then we drove on into Virginia...another beautiful state. And, we weren't surrounded by trucks all the time...the time we had the most trucks was when "our" interstate route (I-81) ended up being the detour route for I-40...then we had LOTS of trucks as seen in the above picture.

We have travelled 366 miles today...if Map Quest figured correctly, we are more than half-way to our destination in Maryland...a little more than 300 miles to go. It was VERY windy today. Woody said that it didn't really bother him when he was driving. But, when we stopped at an overlook and at a rest stop, we about got blown away when we got out of the car!

We are settled in for the night. We plan to get up in the morning and have breakfast here at the motel and then head on down the road...fabric and crab cakes...here we come!!!!!!!!!