Family vacation, day 1

So, we left today at around 4:15 pm. Destination: Destin, Florida.  We covered around 350 miles out of about 975. My hope was to drive into the wee hours, making it through Nashville at the least, so that tomorrow we’d have most of the drive behind us. I drank one of those 5 Hour Energy things at 9:00, intending to drive until it wore off. But one of the boy’s tolerance for sleeping in the car wore off first.  And my tolerance for whining wore off shortly thereafter.

So, as Sara and the boys are soundly sleeping here in this Elizabethtown, Kentucky hotel, I update my blog, hoping the energy drink people were joking when they said that about “5 hours.”