Didn't get going at the crack of dawn today. Lots of snow, maybe six plus inches of wet snow. Opps, still had the wipers on from last night so when I turned the key on, they started. The door was open and it dumped snow into every crevice in the door. It took a while to brush as much off as we could. I did pack the ice scraper for the first time this trip, but do not have any type of brush.

Not much for traffic and the roads were mostly clear. Around the curves trucks were supposed to stay in the right lane, and they mostly did ... for a while. Traffic was mostly moving around 40-50 for the first hour or two this morning. Once we got close to Knoxville the road cleared and I put the cruise on. Once I had the cruise set at 60 mph, the mileage dropped from 13.6 to 13.1 mpg. Which is still much better the the 6 mpg they are paying me for. So I should do pretty good on this trip.

We did stop at a Pilot in Knoxville. This is one of the ones that is just a gas station, not a truck stop. I was only down a quarter of a tank but the fuel was less here than anywhere between here and IL. Went in to use the restroom and had to step back out and re-look at the sign on the door. I don't remember being in a men's restroom with stalls ... and no urinal.

Lunch was at Arbey's in Gordonsville. Half hour in and out. Had thought we would have time to do sit downs this trip, but by only getting 50 miles yesterday we need to make up time.

Quick break in Cadiz at the Shell station, bought a couple of bottles of liquid.

Another two hours and we were at Benton. Cheapest fuel on this trip. Fuel had gone up three cents since updated on GasBuddy but still the cheapest. Another half hour and we are at the Comfort Inn in Mt Vernon.

Food is next door at Agave Mexican Restaurant. Food was good. BB couldn't finish hers so that might be breakfast for both of us. Breakfast here is not until 7 am and sun up is at 7:03.

We've got just over 500 miles to go tomorrow. 10 hours of daylight, two hours of non-driving, 8-1/2 of driving so we will likely be driving in the dark again.