I woke up about 50 minutes before the alarm this morning an knew I wouldn’t get back to sleep so I quietly yelled to Lyn “Are you awake yet?”, well of course she was …….. now. So we up packed and on the road by 7:15 bound for Knoxville Tennessee, just over 500 miles away. All went well and we were making good time, the first 40 miles was not Interstate, still modtly 4-lane. There were numerous signed along the way threatening delays due to road-works, nothing ever materialised. Just outside Birmingham Alabama with no road work signs in view for miles we delayed about 5 minutes due to road works!
About 30 miles from destination we started slowing dow, then came to a complete stop. Evidently there had been a major accident about 4 hours earlier, and the Interstate had been closed. It had been partially reopened after the Medevac helicopters had departed but then it seemed to open and close sporadically, as presumably, the wreckage was cleared away. That hold up wasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have a better trip on our way to Hagerstown, Maryland.