Today's Word: Wind

My goodness - I'm so glad today was the short day! The wind was fierce. My loyal little CRV is usually pretty good in the wind, and even so I was fighting almost the whole way here. Louisville wasn't bad, and the mountains in Kentucky broke it up a little, too, but whew!

Indiana was beautiful but smelly. Note to highway folks: don't place rest stops downwind of stockyards. But to be fair, it smelled that way through most of the state. I put some Peppermint oil in my car diffuser and that helped.

Kentucky is gorgeous! I love it! I didn't get to sight-see as much as I did earlier in the trip - with the wind I couldn't really take any of my attention away from the road - but what I did see was beautiful.

Spring has been "springing" the farther east I've come, and it's going strong here. Grass is green, and there are leaves on the bushes and just getting started on trees. I saw forsythia and daffodils yesterday, but even more flowers today. And bugs. Lots of bugs on the windshield.

No music today - had to keep the GPS plugged in after I didn't need the diffuser any more. It didn't play any nasty tricks on me today. Things went smoothly.

Punkin's doing well. She's eating and drinking almost normally. Sleeping a lot in the car. She really didn't want to get in the carrier today - I think she's tired of the trip. So she slept - resting up for her room explorations tonight!

Tomorrow's route:
I-64 East through Charleston, WV, joining with I-77 South there and on down to Beckley, then I-77 on through Virginia into North Carolina to I-74, to 52, then 421 to I-40 on into Raleigh. At least, it looks like that will do it. I don't have satellite reception in my hotel room to see if the GPS agrees with that.

I decided to go ahead and take the WV tollway - it's not expensive and it is MUCH easier than trying to avoid it. Maybe if I come through another time with a navigator I'll take some back roads.

Well, this is the room with the whirlpool tub - can't let that go to waste! And I want to catch the weather on TV before tomorrow.

Thanks for checking in! I'll write more about some of the sights and events of the trip later.

'Night!