Run around

This morning we were up at 5:30.  The motel breakfast left a lot to be desired, we had a English muffin, juice and coffee.  Took blueberry muffins to eat on the road.  

We got into rush hour traffic in Nashville.  We drove in their HOV lane (for at least two in the car) for a long way.  Then we got into the area of multiple highway switches, being in the proper lane is critical as to not end up somewhere one does not want to travel.  Thanks to the GPS and our experience in traveling thru Nashville all went smoothly.

Finding a place for the night proved to be a challenge.  We wanted someplace near our route and all we could find were places where people had bad experiences.  Finally we found a good hotel in Davenport, Iowa, much further along than we had planned.  We reserved and set the GPS, all was going well until we were detoured as the highway we needed to take was under construction.  We had gotten two exits away, our GPS started taking us around in circles - guess it was tired as well!  It was dark outside to make matters worse.  Finally we pulled over and decided to retrace our route and take another that went north of the hotel.  That worked but couldn't find the place, it was not where it was supposed to be located.  We called the hotel, the person answering didn't know how to give directions.  When we were about to give up ---- we spotted the place.

We hadn't eaten dinner but decided we were not going out again and hoped there was a vending machine with maybe crackers and cheese or microwave popcorn.  We registered and were told "there is 30 minutes left of happy hour, we have chili and cornbread, beer and wine."  That was the best part of our day!!!!

After we ate, we brought our stuff in from the car, watched a little TV and went to bed.