DEPARTURE 12/29/2008

Leaving to the strains of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” we head off to I-64. We’ll be on this highway all the way to Kentucky where we’ll stay overnight with our good friends Jack and Sheryl. It is hard to believe that we are actually on our way and that we completed the daunting task of putting away all the Christmas stuff and getting the house ready to leave and actually departed almost on time!

The Prius is having its first encounter with mountainous driving but it is performing well in spite of being fully packed. We brought our lunch with us in order to finish up the food in the fridge. Unfortunately we did not find a nice rest stop to picnic and ended up eating in a parking lot at one of those awful turnpike stops. Oh well, the food was good anyhow!Ten hours and nearly 600 miles later we pulled into the driveway in Elizabethtown. Had a nice dinner and good visit with Jack and Sheryl before crashing for the night