A Long Day

It is 10 minutes until 11 pm, or 22:50 for those of you keeping score in military time, and I am now sitting in my home for the next month. Well, in the interest of full disclosure, I am actually sitting in a hotel room and not in my actual home for the next month, but that is neither here nor there. The point is, today was a long day.

At 6:15 I said good-bye to my wife and started the long trek from San Antonio to Montgomery. It was about a 700 mile trip without ANYTHING exciting to see along the way. I-10 East is basically one long corridor of trees with 4 lanes carved out; end of description. So, if you are going to make a trip down this stretch of I-10, I highly recommend having some form of entertainment planned out ahead of time.

Side note: Cracker Barrel rents books on CD. The process works like this: go in to any Cracker Barrel in the country, select out the book(s) you want to listen to (they have several new releases available), pay the full retail price at first, and then return it to any Cracker Barrel anywhere in the country. They refund all your money except for a weekly rental fee of like $3. It's a great deal - I managed to get through 2 books today while enjoying tree alley.

Anyway, I managed to make this exotic 700 mile journey in just under 14 hours - I think I could have made it in 13 hours but I had to endure the obligatory "I am driving on an interstate so at some point all traffic must come to a complete stop for 30 minutes in some random location for no apparent reason whatsoever." Today's random interstate congestion occurred about 20 miles outside the booming metropolis of Beaumont where there was no accident, no construction, no hazardous waste spillage, and NO REASON TO COME TO A COMPLETE STANDSTILL FOR A HALF HOUR! But I am over it - 14 hours is still pretty reasonable I attribute this respectable time to the utter lack of anything remotely stimulating along the way.

But, at least I made it to Montgomery without incident and should sleep well tonight!