Well, we made it to Nashville without incident. Bought gas in Manchester, TN. Paid $2.79 per gallon; about the same as back home in SC. Got 27.1 mpg; not bad for a performance coupe running 80 mph most of the way!

We freshened up and then took the hotel shuttle down to the 'music district' along Broadway in downtown Nashville. While we were consuming nutrition at a local eatery along Broadway, we saw a SSB XFire Roadster pull up to the stoplight at the intersection of Broadway & 4th. If you follow this Forum, let us know who we saw.

Plan to start the 2nd leg of our CAA trek tomorrow AM and hope to join danimal & others near the KY state line.

I've made this trip so much handling my folks' affairs in KCMO (since their passing over the past 2-yr period) that I tend to let the scenery go by without paying much attention to it. I probably could do this drive in my sleep.

Traffic around Atlanta was typical insaneness. Spent much of our attention watching the 'other guy' as folks drive with near careless abandon. Lane switching without hardly any signaling. Once we split off of I-75N onto I-24W, our jaunt across the southern edge of the Smokey Mountain chain started. This section of our trek was uneventful and the XFire held her own with the other traffic. We made a stop for lunch at a GA Rest Stop. Berta packed sandwiches from home and we enjoyed 'people watching' while we 'snarfed down the eats & drinks'. (You see the full gamut of characters at a rest stop during a holiday weekend!) Nothing else really happened along our trip that merits mentioning here. Still hot in the SE-USA. Probably hot for everyone else in Elsewhere, USA.

Tomorrow the majority of CAA trekies arrive at Harrah's. Going to be a stellar event this week!

Later,