SWMBO and I find ourselves in Nashville TN tonight, 2/3 or so of our way to Hot Springs AR for Thanksgiving. We drove; I’m so sick of TSA’s ineffectual security grandstanding that I’ll go to great lengths not to fly again.

Plus, when one improves the life-to-date mileage of a Buick Lucerne from 21.7 to 22.8, while simultaneously lifting the average lifetime speed of the vehicle from 45.3 to 47.9 MPH, it’s been a good day.

And, the only suckage was some as yet unexplained 2 hour delay west of Knoxville, wherein I-40 West was a parking lot. But a nice room, free wifi, and a few cold ones that can be had with a half-block walk to the Shell station, and life is good again.

400 miles from Hot Springs now; an early, though not too early start tomorrow, and we should be there in the early afternoon.
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