On the Road Again

   Up at dark thirty to catch our United Airlines flight to Memphis, Tennessee.  Although I am not a big fan of United, not from personal experience but from what I hear on the fake news network or what you can read about in the local Fish Wrapper.  I have never been mistreated by United like the guy who was dragged off his flight, or all the reports of reservation cancellations and lack of proper compensation.  Stuff like that.But our flight to Memphis had no hiccups, delays or emergency landings.  I It was a nice kind of "had o hum" flight.

   While picking up our luggage in Memphis, Ron and Nancy Pinkerton, our traveling companions and long time friends from Arkansas met us at the baggage pickup.  Soon we were loading up the last bit of remaining space in their vehicle and headed out.

   Our first stop was to be at the Rendezvous Restaurant, a Tennessee BBQ joint in downtown Memphis.  Looking forward to their BBQ ribs, we were soon seated and salivating over the menu until our ribs orders arrived.  I don’t know what Debby and Nancy had...I don’t really care because my single mindedness had me focused on RIBS!   They were, of course, delicious...not the best in the world, but delicious.  I have a taste for their dry rub and cooking method.  The Slick Pig in Murfreesboro.   

   The four of us codgers, being trained by our grandkids to be techno-savvy, set our iPhone, Samsung and Garmin GPS devices to take us to our Motel in Lebanon, Tennessee.  Our GPS devices were all in agreement that we take this highway, turn on that highway and follow I-22 for a leisurely drive through Nashville and on to Lebanon.  We were looking forward to being in our motel rooms about dark, or before.  

   At first, we were not too surprised to see signs along our route about Mississippi.  A few hours down the road we stopped for fuel and a few snacks.  Back into the truck we were on the road about an hour when someone noticed a distance sign to Tupelo, Mississippi and a light came on.  Looking at our GPS directions, we were still on track for Lebanon.  The only problem seemed to be the miles were increasing on us!  As it turned out we drove about 7 hours instead of the normal 2 to 3 hours!  

   We put our heads together and decided that between the 4 of us, we could come up with actually 1 brain!