Road Trip Thoughts

So we're home from a week long road trip. A lot of time spent in the car, driving up to Cass West Virginia and back home, via Deltaville Virginia - with a few stop in between.

These are some observations from our trip:

~ Thank God for built in DVD players. At first it wasn't working, don't know why. But then it fixed itself and kept Amy occupied and not asking "are we there yet?"

~ Can someone please tell me why the price of gas can vary so much, even in one city. We passed two stations that were $2.99, then down the road a couple of miles, it was $3.39. I don't get it.

~ I am also thankful for OnStar and their driving directions. Dean has a GPS built into his phone, but there were some times it just wasn't working. Fortunately we were able to push that "blue button" and someone was able to download directions to the car and we were able to find where we were going.

~ I found that you can tell a lot about an area based on the billboards you see. And along those same lines, you can tell which way an area is leaning politically based on the number of those signs too. Don't believe what the polls and news are telling you. Go out and drive around and see for yourself.

~ Road food... what happened to the diners? The mom and pop places where you could get a good meal, cheap. Most all we found was chain food. Need to go look up "Diners, Drive Ins and Dives" before our next road trip.

~ Some names of towns I wouldn't want to live in (only based on the name):
Muddlety (muddle through life... sounds boring)
Gassaway (that one speaks for itself I think)
Goochland (I'm a Goochlander?)
Dinwiddle (uh?)
Squirrel Level (who came up with that name?)

The leaves were changing in West Virginia, not quite at peak. But we had a beautiful day for the train ride and picnic. Had a nice visit with family, albeit short. Glad to be back home.

So what did you do last week?