Gustav

We are in a Hampton Inn in Troy, Alabama. We left the house at 6:30pm last night and a trip that should have taken 5 hours took aver 12. we pulled into the hotel after 6:30am this morning. the first two hours we went one 12.3 miles. It was a long long long drive but well worth getting out early. We wanted to get out ahead of the storm and the contra flow since that would have made us take roads we did not want to take. There were many cars over heated by the side of the road and there was no gas at any of the stations we usually use by the time we left town yesterday. Thankfully we had filled up both of our cars on Friday. My car made it all the way but we had to stop once for more gas in Scott's car, we found one station with two pumps working and only premium gas but at least there was some.

Chance slept most of the way here and so was ready to get up and go by the time we got here. We were able to watch the sunrise as we were driving on the smaller roads to the little town where the hotel is located. It was very pretty and woke me right up even though I had not slept in over a day. We napped with Chance today, it was good.

Thanks to everyone who called to check on us.

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