This day did not start out like all the rest. BB has been getting up earlier and earlier and keeps most of the lights off until I am up. This morning she managed to knock her coffee off the night stand and when she went to wipe it up she could find much on the floor ... because most of it ended up in her purse :(

Luckily the work paperwork only had a little coffee on it, but one of her notebooks got pretty soaked. Drying out each thing in her purse took until breakfast.

We hadn't pushed it to get going, we had two and a half days to get just over 1,000 miles. What could go wrong?

We stop once at the welcome center in Charlotte, NC, then again for lunch at Bojangles in Kings Mountain. One piece was pretty crispy but the other was good.

We got to Shelby right about 1 pm. We had no idea where we were going or what we would find. Turns out the lot is just off the main drag on a frontage road, and the rental car place is a mile away on the same road. EZ.

This is an unmanned lot with a lock box to throw the paperwork before we leave. Didn't realize that a number on our paperwork was the number showing on the outside of our truck. We were told it was a Ford PU with a lift. It's not, it just has a flat bed in the back with a fuel tank and an air compressor. By now it has started to rain, not hard yet but BB held the umbrella while I did some of my checks.

After I picked BB up at the rental car place we stopped in Shelby for fuel. I had a quarter of a tank and added 30 gallons so it must be a 40 gallon tank. Range shows something like 600 miles, not likely.

We get just a few miles down the road and it starts to snow. This thing gets good mileage when you are only going 30-40 mph. After 50 miles we get to the first real town and decide to call it a day. It is not even 2 pm, but the GPS says traffic is going about 30 mph all the way to the next town, up and down the hills and around the curves. Too many people on the road for me.

We checked into the Quality Inn and waited until 5pm to go and eat. Walked to the Cracker Barrel next door "Closing at 5 pm today." Walked to McDonalds "Closed at 5 pm today." So we had to buy stuff at the convenience store. BB bought two cups of cereal and a small bottle of milk, I got a can of ChiefBoy, a couple of donuts and an ice cream bar. Mmmmm.

When I looked at our work board later IA and emptied it. So now we can't make plans until sometime Monday. And now we have to kind of push it the next two days to stay on schedule.