Day 3

Hallelujah they bikes are gassed up the truck is gassed up and we are in route to our next destination somewhat on time! Travel seems to be good today although we will be going through Knoxville Tennessee where the traffic will be a bit heavy and we have to make sure to stay together. The highlight for today is a small restaurant that I found for our lunch break. It did not look like much when we pulled up in front of it and it was very rustic and the chairs and tables but had very interesting people there and Glenn found the perfect sign for him to put up at work. It said " I'm not Bossy, I just have better ideas!"

It was a wonderful little down-home country diner that had awesome food and everybody was happy with it!

Bellies full gas tanks full we were on our way again. Knoxville was a little stressful with the traffic but once we got past that point it was smooth sailing all the way to our Final destination in Maryland! The scenery along the route is beautiful and there are many areas I had never been through before, I definitely want to go back and explore these areas more in depth at some point particularly going through Virginia. 

Once again we found ourselves watching the weather and beating some storm clouds and thunderstorms to the hotel. This was a an interesting hotel to try to get to and we barely made it under cover at the entrance of the hotel just before it down poured!

When making reservations at these locations Trent made sure that there would be room for the big rigs and of course every hotel said yes there was, however this particular hotel had one entrance only and the trucks had to go all the way around the hotel to get to the portion of parking lot where they could park and we could load the bikes.

Johnny and Tom were in the parking lot of the mall across the highway from the hotel and we're not sure how to get there. So I got on my bike and went to find them as telling them via phone was not possible to do. It was a very convoluted way of getting in there by going through a mall parking lot and via an underpass to the hotel entrance! I love them around and had to block traffic for the rigs to swing the large corners how many cars were ignoring me and I had to lay on the horn and scream at them in time for them to stop as they saw these rigs turning the corner and taking up both lanes of traffic then they got it!

With the trucks finally parked and we are able to load them it is a night in Maryland and some much-needed laundry for me to do! I did join the boys for dinner and a cocktail before I retreated to my room to plan out the routes for the next day, as I was falling asleep while doing this it was another early morning 130-ish that I was finally able to get to sleep!