K & M Road Trip - Day 1

Margie volunteered to help me drive in a large circle around the US. GA to NM via I-95, 1-75, I-24, I-40 -after a 5 day visit with my sister we head south to TX for Penny's graduation then home again by way of I-20, 1-49 and I-10. We had a couple of hickups early in our adventure. First was my early discovery that I didn't have my wallet and finally remembered that I had forgotten to take it out of my bike basket from the night before. Obviously I had to make a quick return and retrieval from my house. Second was when Margie was climbing in my car she knocked over my tea. But, I finally got to test out my lifeproof iPhone case - it worked.

In anticipation of visiting Graceland Mansion on Thursday we listened to a unusual Elvis biography on the way to Atlanta. We decided that we were about 8 years too young to have been real swooning Elvis fans, which meant our Elvis knowledge was sorely lacking.  We did most of our swooning for the Beatles,  the Monkeys and Dr Kildare, so the Elvis biography gave us a little background and some interesting tidbits. We did a quick stop in Locust Grove Outlet Mall for some gas, power-walking and power-shopping. We stopped again in Dalton where we ate lunch with Jim (taught with him and his wife Kris in China) and caught up on news. Gratefully, the rest of our first day's adventure was smooth driving. We stopped for the night in Jackson TN in a slightly questionable Ramada Inn.