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Day 1 — The Adventure Begins with travel to Nashville
If you received an unexpected call from your 86-year-old mother at 2:20 in the morning, would you be expecting good news? Neither was I this morning when my phone rang at 2:20 and I saw the call was from my 86-year-old mother.
Much to my relief, she was chuckling and asked if she’d woken me up. (… awakened me.) Six of one, you know what I mean.
I asked her what was wrong.
“Oh, nothing,” she said. “I just wanted to wish you a safe trip. Since you told me you were leaving at 5 a.m., I thought you’d be up by now.”
I informed my beloved mother that we had packed everything but ourselves and the dogs into the truck the evening before (You can read about that in yesterday’s post The California Odyssey: The evening before departure.) and were planning to sleep until 4:00.
Mom apologized, laughed some more, and wished us a safe trip.
The missus and I decided that since we were awake, we might as well hit the road. We were on our way at 3:45.
We got as far as the end of the street. I asked if she was sure the garage door had closed since she was in charge of…
